More arrests of Nazi conspirators in West Germany are expected following the crackdown here yesterday on the anti-Semitic neo-Nazi “German Free Corps” which maintained secret paramilitary cadres. Four leading members of this Nazi-type group were arrested. The records seized proved that the organization plotted to restore Hitlerism in Germany, it was revealed today.
The program of the group, it was established, was anti-Semitic, anti-Jesuit and anti-Free Mason. It was a “revised edition” of the 25 points of the platform of the Nazi party. The members of the Free Corps felt themselves still bound by their oath to Adolf Hitler. They regarded Adm. Karl Doenitz, who is confined in Spandau Prison in Berlin as a major war criminal, as Hitler’s future legitimate Successor.
The government said that the Free Corps, which has been active in Hamburg and Bremen, had links with a ring of neo-Nazi plotters headed by Werner Naumann, a top-ranking official of Paul Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry. Seven leading members of the Naumann ring were jailed by the British High Commission Jan. 15.
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