About 30 people demonstrated in Frankfurt against the convention of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD), held in a municipally-owned auditorium. A last minute attempt by the city authorities to cancel the rental agreement was ruled illegal by a Frankfurt court. Use of the facility by the NPD had been protested by the local Jewish community, trade unionists and other anti-Nazi groups.
Four neo-Nazis were arrested outside the hall for carrying gas pistols, riot sticks and chains. A young neo-Nazi leader, Michael Kuhenen, distributed leaflets implying that the NPD as being persecuted. The leaflet claimed that the outlawed Third Reich Nazi Party has been active in the Federal Republic since 1971 without interference from the authorities.
Participants in the demonstration called for a nationwide ban on neo-Nazi organizations including the NPD. They placed a wreath at a nearby house which had been occupied by the family of Anne Frank before they emigrated to Holland in 1933.
Meanwhile, the NPD elected 72 year-old Erich Gutjahr as chairman of its Hesse branch and announced that it would participate in the next general elections in Hesse.
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