The appointmont of Dr. Hans Schlange-Schoeningen as first consul general in the United States of the West German Government is being protested by German Jowry.
This protest was voiced here today in the current issue of the German Jewish weekly “Allgemaine Vochenzoitung der Juden in Deutschland,” which called on the Bonn Government to reconsider the appointment. The publication reveals that Dr. Schlange has made a number of public statements against Jews including one, in 1924, that the Jews were responsible for Germany’s defeat in World War I and that the Jews were “criminals against the German people.”
Dr. Schlange, meanwhile, has denied that he is an anti-Somite, and maintains that the cannot remember having made the anti-Jewish statements attributed to him. Rumors to the effect that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will reverse himself on the appointment have not been confirmed.
(A cable to the New York Times from Bonn today says that Dr. Schlange’s appointment to Washington has been withdrawn, but that he will be sent to London, instead. The reason for the change, the Tines report said, was that the Germans felt that for prestige reasons Dr. Schlange should reside in Washington, while the U.S. Government insisted that he stay in New York.)
Dietrich Klagge, for 12 years Nazi Governor of Brunswick, today went to jail for life. A German court gave him the life sentence–the highest penalty it can impose–for murdering 15 anti-Nazis, and torturing and persecuting Jews.
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