The extent to which well known former Nazis are being placed in high posts of the West Germany Republic Is “really frightful,” Heinz Galinski, president of the Jewish community of Berlin, declared in an interview here today.
He charged that in response to neo-Nazi developments, even the Social Democratic Party does not always take a strong enough stand. This is particularly true in the various provincial governments where the Socialists are part of a coalition government, he said.
Speaking of the role of the Central Council of Jews in Germany–of which he is a leader he said that it was opposed to “liquidation” of Jewish communities in Germany, though it took no stand on propaganda urging Jews who left Germany to return.
The Council, he also noted, favors the integration of Jews into the German economy, a program which Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has promised to aid. Finally, he noted that the Council would soon establish youth centers, such as now exist for Jewish young people in this city, in Munich, Frankfort and Dusseldorf.
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