Officials of Jewish organizations here today protested to the German civilian and American military authorities against a series of anti-Semitic incidents which occurred here over the week-end in which the windows of two Jewish restaurants and a Jewish butcher shop were smashed and the signs of several Jewish organizations’ offices were removed. The Jews also expressed concern at the continued growth of anti-Semitism throughout Germany.
The Munich Police Commissioner, Franz Pitzer, said the incidents were the work of anti-Semites because neither the restaurants nor the butcher shop were robbed. Military authorities similarly admitted that the acts may be the work of anti-Semites. “Nobody is silly enough to believe that the Nazis or Nazism have been eliminated from Germany,” a military spokesman said.
Meanwhile, it was learned that eviction orders against several racial persecutees in the town of Passau have been withdrawn and the district councilor, H. Karl, has been suspended from office for issuing them. The eviction of the persecutees was ordered on the basis of a law which permits “denazified” Germans who have paid their fines to retrieve their homes and property. The Council of Ministers in Stuttgart will begin discussions shortly on clarifying this law. The present practice is not to return the property of a “denazified” German unless similar property is given to the persecutee who is being evicted.
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