Swiss frontier authorities prevented a notorious German anti-Semitic leader from entering Switzerland to meet there with anti-Semitic leaders from other countries, it was learned here today. The German whom the Swiss frontier guards did not permit to cross the Swiss frontier is Karl Meissner, chairman of the “German Block” which has its headquarters in Munich, and former member of the Bavarian parliament.
The “German Community” a pseudo-intellectual neo-Nazi movement headed by the former deputy chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, August Haussleiter, will hold its national convention at Stuttgart on September 3 and 4, it was announced today. The group adopted the additional designation of “National Rally” some time ago.
Karl Heinz Priester’s violently anti-Semitic “German Social Movement, ” a lunatic-fringe group that is an organic part of the fascist “European Social Movement,” has announced that it will hold its national convention at Bad Homburg, in Hesse, on October 1 and 2. It remains to be seen, however, whether the Social Democratic Hesse government will allow the assembly to take place.
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