Press reports here today state that old Nazi marching songs are again being heard on West German parade grounds. Recruits at the Wesendor Air Force base in Lower Saxony are reportedly being taught the Hitlerian tunes although they are on a list of songs banned by the Bonn Defense Ministry in 1960 as being “politically unsuited to the role of the German army.”
A spokesman for the Bundeswehr training school at Koblentz said “no one has given the order to stop singing” the songs, although it was known that they were banned.
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