The Association of Jewish Communities in Bavaria filed a complaint today with the Ministry of the Interior against the publishers of two anti-Semitic publications issued by former members of the fascist “Arrow Cross” movement in Hungary, which was responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of Jews.
One of the publications, “Cel,” is a continuation of the “Ut es Cel” formerly published in Salzburg, which was suppressed by the Austrian police last year. The other publication, “Hidverok,” was banned by the United States occupation authorities here in 1949 because of its anti-democratic and anti-Semitic nature. It resumed publication under editorship of Geza Alfoldi, former propaganda section chief for the Nazi-backed Hungarian Premier Ference Szalasy, when licensing regulations were ended in West Germany.
Both papers are being distributed from here to Hungarian-speaking people in North Africa, Western Europe, Latin America, the United States and Canada.
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