Asher Ben-Nathan, Israel’s ambassador to West Germany, said here today that the West German man on the street did not share the publicly expressed concern by leaders of the government and the press “who are anxious about the reappearance of Nazi-type movements” in West Germany.
Mr. Ben-Nathan said there was “some anti-Semitism in Germany, as in other Western countries but anti-Semitism in Germany means something different in Germany than anywhere else.” He asserted that credit must be given to efforts by many groups in West Germany “to fight the resurrection of Nazism.” He said “only if we acknowledge what the Germans themselves are doing about it, can we hope to be effective in our criticism of the situation in Germany.”
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