West Germany continued today to intensify its efforts to counter-act the negative effects resulting from the Adolf Eichmann trial in Israel, which are reviving worldwide reactions against the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime.
The government announced today it is planning to subsidize a Franco-German film depicting conditions at the infamous Dachau concentration camp, based on a book published in 1955 by Edmond Michelot, now Minister of Justice in France. M. Michelot was an inmate of Dachau during the war.
The significance of government interest in the Michelot work is that, while the book recounts the Nazi atrocities, it also offers advice on how to bring about a reconciliation between present-day Germany and the rest of the world. When it was issued in 1955, the book carried two prefaces, written by Dr. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, and by General Charles de Gaulle, now President of France.
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