A special library of 8,000 volumes on the history and religion of the Jews will be added to the Nuremberg city library, it was reported here today. The books were hidden from the Nazis during the second World War and were found by United States occupation forces in 1945.
The Ministry of the Interior of the State of Lower Saxony is planning to establish a collection of documents dealing with the history of the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, it was announced here today. When completed, the collection will be distributed to public school and adult education centers, officials said.
A 19-year-old former army private was sentenced in Stuttgart today to an 11-month jail term for posting anti-Jewish slogans on the bulletin board of his army barracks in Boeblingen on January 6. The soldier has been a member of the right-wing German Reichs party. In Bayreuth, a 19-year-old druggist and a 17-year-old apprentice were each sentenced today to three week-end jail terms for anti-Semitic activities.
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