Students and educators in West Germany acted today to fight anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism with protests and study programs.
Prof, Dolf Sternberg, vice-president of the German section of UNESCO, offered the facilities of his institute to the provincial Ministries of Culture for their programs of political education against prejudice.
The Catholic Teachers Association in Baden protested against “the systematic reemployment of Nazi teachers after the war” in West German schools.
Young teachers in Hesse and Lower Saxony organized independent study groups with the goal of informing themselves about the Nazi period and the causes of anti-Semitism.
Students at Bonn University said they were planning an anti-Nazi demonstration on the anniversary next month of Hitler’s rise to power.
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