A Social Democratic motion to have two local streets named after Prof. Albert Einstein and author Thomas Mann was dropped by the City Council of this university town, after neo-Nazi Councilman Adolf von Thadden, a German Reich Party deputy in the last Bundestag, threatened to make a political issue of it.
The two city streets will thus continue to remain nameless. The embarrassed municipal authorities are now pondering ways and means of circumventing possible harangues with anti-Semitic undertones by von Thadden, national organizing secretary and campaign manager of the German Reich Party.
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