The Augsburg District Attorney has opened an official investigation, three months after the event, against a group that arranged a commemorative meeting in honor of Adolf Hitler on the latter’s birthday. Known originally as the “Nonpartisan Association, ” the group was prohibited by the Bavarian government, but has now reconstituted itself under the title of “Association for the Interests of Denazification Sufferers. “
In Wiesbaden, the Hesse Minister of Education opened disciplinary proceedings, seven months after the event, against long-time Nazi Party county leader Otto Schnell, for glorifying the Nazi regime. In public meetings he had declared that “simply all decent people” had been arrested by the Western Allies after the war and thrown into internment or labor camps which, according to him, “were incomparably worse than Himmler’s concentration camps. ” Schnell leads the “Nazi Mutual Aid Association of Former Internees. “
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