The Board of Deputies of British Jews today denounced the exhumation of the remains of 91 executed Nazi war criminals for reburial in individual graves. The reinterment took place in Lower Saxony after a campaign by neo-Nazis in which the guilt of the executed criminals was openly questioned.
In a unanimous resolution, the Board warned that the German authorities’ action will be exploited by elements which aim at reviving the Nazi spirit among the German people. The Board formally protested the action to the Bonn Government.
A similar denunciation was voiced today at the annual meeting of the Poale Zion organization of Britain.
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