Austrian Jews have brought to the attention of an American representative of the World Council of Churches the fact that the recently appointed representative of the Council in Graz is a former well known Nazi, Andreas Rakowitsch.
Rakowitsch wrote, among other things, a pamphlet “proving” that the Russian Revolution was not Russian but Jewish. The pamphlet was used in indoctrination courses of the German Wehrmacht and the Hitler Elite Guard.
The American representative of the Council, a Mr. Foster, when presented with Rakowitsch’s record, stated that it was no criterion for judging his fitness for his present job.
The Jewish Central Committee of Linz, Upper Austria, sent protests today to the United States authorities here and to the German authorities at Cologne against distribution in a camp for displaced ethnic Germans from Hungary, near here, of anti-Semitic material printed in Germany.
The committee complained that a Hungarian-language paper, Hidverok, published in Neumarkt, Bavaria, by a Hungarian refugee, Alfoldi Geza, was being circulated in the German DP camp here. Recent issues of the paper attacked the Jews as Communists and attributed to Senator Joseph McCarthy the charge that most Communists in the United States were Jews.
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