Rightists Start Campaign on German Deputy Who Honored Jewish Martyrs

Rightist deputies and the Bonn Minister for Refugees, a onetime Nazi leader, have rounded off in Parliament an attack on Prof Carlo Schmid, Social Democratic deputy who recently visited Warsaw and placed a wreath before the monument commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Most vociferous of Prof. Schmid’s critics was German Party deputy Herbert Schneider who charged that the Socialist had “dishonored” the German people by his action and by his willingness to deal with the “Eastern people.” Schneider was one of the chief spokesmen for a Bundestag group which recently called for a “review” of the compensation law for victims of the Nazis.

Another attacker of Prof. Schmid was Theodor Oberlaender, Minister for Refugees, who called the Social Democrat’s willingness to negotiate with the Poles a “crime” against Germany and Europe. During the war, the East Prussian was a Nazi security police leader and later an official in occupied Prague. It was in that period that Oberlaender wrote of the Jews that they were “always inclined toward Communism.”