Charges that the Christian Democratic Party “approves anti-Semitic trends” were voiced on the floor of the City Senate today by Mayor Brauer, bringing angry retorts from leading Christian Democrats, who followed up their protests by walking out of the Senate.
The Christian Democrats, who control the Federal German Government, are in the Opposition in this city’s Parliament. Mayor Brauer is a member of the Social Democratic Party.
Christian Democrats started today’s fracas by accusing the Senate of having brought “the city’s judiciary into public disrepute.” The accusation was levelled in connection with a recent case in which the Senate announced that a local judge has been discovered as having been the author of an anti-Semitic article during the Nazi regime. The hot partisan exchange resulted after Mayor Brauer replied with his accusation against the Christian Democrats.
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