A Nazi flag flew briefly over Frankfurt yesterday, the 38th anniversary of Crystal Night when Nazi mobs went on an anti-Jewish rampage.
Frankfurt police said that unidentified persons raised the flag on the smoke stack of a power station where Nazi literature was found pasted to the door at the base of the 150-foot high tower. Nazi posters were also found glued on ticket vending machines, lampposts and walls in other parts of Frankfurt. They said: “We are here again. Red Front perish. Don’t buy from Jews.” The posters were signed National Socialist German Workers Party, Foreign Organization. Box 6414, Lincoln. Nebraska. U.S. Police are investigating the incident.
Following the incident, Heinz Galinski, chairman of the Berlin Jewish community, speaking at a meeting of the European Council of Jewish Communities, which was conducting a memorial service to commemorate Crystal Night, demanded that the government clamp down on neo-Nazi provocations. “The governments and the democratic parties should concern themselves more seriously and basically than hitherto with the provocative activities of the neo-Nazi circles.”
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