A warning to the United States and Britain to balt the sending of Nazi literature from other countries into West Germany was issued here today by Heinz Galinski, chairman of the Jewish community in West Berlin, where anti-Jewish posters were found tacked on the walls of the city’s Jewish Community Center last week. In a lead article in the Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden, German-language weekly organ of the West German Jewish community. Mr. Galinski warned that a revival of anti-Jewish activity not only threatens Jews, but also poses a danger to world peace.
Mr. Galinski referred particularly to the Nazi groups which have developed in Britain, where a spokesman for the British National Socialist movement boasted that his group had sent more than 10,000 pamphlets to West German business firms and announced that “further shipments are being prepared by the United States headquarters of the international Nazi movement.”
The posters appearing in West Berlin last week bore pictures of Hitler and such English slogans as “Despite Jewish lies, Hitler was right,” and “Hitler is dead, but National Socialism lives on.” Similar posters, all printed in Britain, have been distributed recently in Frankfurt, Munich and other German cities.
Mr. Galinski warned that “Western politicians must realize in time that effective action must be taken against the new threat.” While West Germany has already asked Britain to halt the sending of leaflets, he noted, the British Nazi spokesman had belittled such efforts by pointing out that his party was legal in Britain. The British Parliament and the United States Congress should be made aware of this situation, Mr. Galinski declared.
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