The decision by Twentieth-Century Fox to show a German-language version of “The Desert Fox” in West Germany was scored here today in a statement by Paul Ginsberg. national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States.
Mr. Ginsberg, who visited Germany earlier this year, predicted that the showing of the film biography of Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel “will prove far more useful to the Communists and Nazis than to those in Germany and in the free West who are working towards the development of a peaceful and democratic state.” The veterans’ leaders said that the Communists would use the film to “falsify and distort” American aims in Europe and to “cover up Soviet Russia’s cynical proposal for rearming Germany.” The rightists, he declared, would use the film to prove their contention that Hitler’s military incompetence rather than the Nazi philosophy were responsible for Germany’s defeat in the war.
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