The League of German Teachers, a 100,000 member association, condemned today the anti-Semitic statements of a teacher in an Offenburg high school, demanded he be prosecuted for war crimes and asked what the local school authorities had done about his teaching the next generation of schoolchildren.
The teachers’ protest, addressed to the Federal and provincial governments and the Bonn Parliament, was aimed at Ludwig Zind. The teacher had stated that “not enough Jews were gassed” by the Nazis and had boasted that he had a hand in the killing of hundreds of Jews during the war.
The teachers league said it was “ashamed” that Zind was a teacher and that it had been “shocked and revolted” by his statements. It declared that only in the “Germany of yesterday” could somebody like Zind be a teacher and that such people as he “threaten the German Republic.” Meanwhile, after an earlier series of protests, Zind was suspended from his post.
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