A West German court has confiscated posters and other material depicting the Nazi swastika that were to have been used to advertise a new fortnightly periodical called “Das Dritte Reich.” The periodical will be published over the next two years by the John Jahn publishing firm in Hamburg. Its first issue is scheduled for publication tomorrow. The publishers say it is a documentation designed to explain the political, economic and social background to the Nazi takeover. The court has also opened proceedings against unidentified persons for the dissemination and use of Nazi symbols, banned under German law.
These actions followed after Nazi persecutees’ organizations in West Germany asked the authorities to ban the display of thousands of swastikas to advertise the new journal. The organizations said such a display is “an insult to the victims of Nazism.” Broadcasting stations in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt have also refused to advertise the new journal.
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