Ful re-instatement of civil service rights and pension privileges were won by former members of the most notorious section of the Nazi Storm Troop organization–the Storm Troop Chasseurs–under a ruling issued by the Superior Administrative Court at Lueneburg in a test case brought by a onetime leader of this brown-shirted unit.
The ruling was severely criticized by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung here, one of the leading newspapers in Bavaria. The paper pointed out that “while indemnification for Nazi victims is being shamefully sabotaged, the Storm Troop Chasseurs of 1933 are–together with many, very many others of their ilk–rehabilitated and reinstated.”
The largest daily paper in South Germany says that the re-instated Chasseurs “belonged to the foulest outcroppings of Nazism; to its worst loudmouths, bruisers and torturers. They treated political prisoners so appallingly that–this was still at the beginning of the Nazi era–even Hitler himself had to take into account foreign protests and to close down one of their camps, Hohenstein Fortress.”
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