Joseph Schuster, commander-in-chief of the Nazi storm troopers, and leader of the Nazi Youth, who have been in their summer encampment here, wants to “do what is right.”
This is what the young Nazi told William Stephenson, clerk of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, when the latter took the storm troop commander to task for filthy conditions alleged to exist at Camp Wille and Macht.
TO DROP CHARGES
As a result charges of sanitary code violations probably will be dropped. Schuster was accused of having failed to communicate with the township board of health on water and sewage conditions in the camp.
Schuster condescended to speak with the town’s authorities only after the township committee last Wednesday night decided to issue a warrant for his arrest.
In a conversation with Stephenson, Schuster agreed to comply with the laws and take whatever steps are necessary to place the camp in good standing. He said he was not familiar with state laws and local regulations. He also promised to break camp within the coming week.
The camp, Wille und Macht, was established about two months ago by philanthropic Nazis, to provide their storm troopers a rest from the arduous task of goose-stepping at the Friends of New Germany meetings here. They have since been goose-stepping in the wide open spaces.
“To prepare them for the labors of the coming winter,” was the way the solicitation put it.
Well browned and ready for anything that might arise, the young storm troopers will go marching home again this week-end, it is understood.
Final “war games,” scheduled to be held last Sunday, were called off because of the stir caused when advance press notices heralded the drills.
More than 500 proud parents and friends of the 150 Nazi youths were forced to watch the strapping youngsters go through acrobatic rather than military tactics on the swastika-bedecked field.
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