A 12-point manifesto issued by the extremist National Democratic Party disclosed today that the party wants an end to the Nazi war crimes trials and to West German compensation payments to victims of the Nazi period.
The NDP, which shocked world opinion by winning Parliamentary seats for the first time this month in elections in Hesse and Bavaria, has never issued a detailed program, only the manifesto.
Point nine of the manifesto reads: “Twenty years after the war, we demand an end to one-sided trials which aim at wiping out the past, while in other countries millions of war crimes against German men, women and children go unpunished.”
Point ten puts the NDP on record as “demanding” an “end to the lie about sole German responsibility whereby thousands of millions of money has been extorted from our nation.” The party has called for an immediate end to such compensation payments.
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