The Board of Deputies of British Jews unanimously approved today “a solemn appeal to all responsible and democratically-minded persons in West Germany and other countries” to act to ensure that legislative and other steps will be taken immediately in West Germany “to ban all Nazi-type activities, parties and publications.”
Asserting that such political activities were “again threatening civilization,” the Board said such a ban was necessary to “stop the resurgence of Nazism” in West Germany. The resolution said the Board “strongly protests the license permitted to the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, which includes in its leadership a large proportion of former Nazis” and which is “allowed to organize, carry on activities and spread propaganda on the Nazi model.”
A report on the Board’s foreign affairs committee precede adoption of the resolution. In introducing that report, Sir Barnett Janner said that the committee was “appalled at recent vivid examples of the persistence of active sympathy with Nazism” in West Germany “which must fill every Jew and informed non-Jew with the utmost foreboding.”
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