Documents dealing with the activities during the Nazi regime of Dr. Hans Globke, State Secretary to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, which were intended as part of an “Eichmann Documentary” exhibit which opened here Saturday, have been confiscated by order of a lower court.
Visitors to the opening of the exhibit, which was sponsored by the Association of Victims of Nazism, witnessed a scuffle when the court order was executed as West German journalists tried to prevent an East German television team from filming the scenes.
Newspapers close to the Government Christian Democratic Party published an interview last week in-which the State Secretary asserted that he had been able to prevent even more drastic anti-Jewish legislation by remaining-in office during the Nazi regime. His interview was called a “one-sided attempt at self-justification” today by the Social Democratic Information Service.
The official party publication stressed that Dr. Globke had left open some “doubtful aspects” of his activities in the Nazi Interior Ministry. He had not mentioned, the party organ charged, that he had been the Ministry’s co-advisor-on “the Jewish question” and that during the war, he had made several trips to German-occupied territories where he negotiated with high Nazi officials on problems concerning Jews.
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