Until three months ago, Adolf Hitler was on honorary citizen of the West German city of Hanover. That little Known fact was brought to light in the Knesset recently by Likud MK Dov Shilansky, a Holocaust survivor, who asked Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan to confirm a report that appeared in Hoaretz last December. According to the report, not only Hitler but other high-ranking Nazis retained their place on the raster of honorary citizens of the city not for from the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dayan replied last week that Hitler was indeed on Honover’s hanor rale until last Nov.9 when the City Council finally got around to removing the name by a vote of 120-0. Also removed was another Nazi surnamed Rost.
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