The Government of Schleswig-Holstein has prohibited the holding of the international congress of neo-Fascists which was to have opened in the convention hall here on June 24.
The congress, which was to have been attended by 3,000 delegates from West Germany, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, Italy and Argentina, was sponsored by the so-called “European Liaison Office,” the coordinating agency of the organized anti-Semitic, Fascist groups. The state government banned the assembly following vigorous protests by the German trade union movement and other democratic groups in West Germany.
Technical arrangements for the assembly had been in the hands of Karl Meissner, head of the neo-Nazi, anti-Jewish “German Bloc.” Other key supporters of the “European Liaison Office” are Erwin Schoenborn, of Berlin, a notorious Jew-baiter; Wilhelm Wadsack, leader of the dissident Nazi followers of Otto Strasser, and Fritz Roessler, a high-ranking Nazi functionary, who had served in the Bundestag under a false name until his exposure and conviction two years ago.
The state authorities acted after the Luebeck trade union groups warned that they had not forgotten the sufferings caused by the Nazi regime and would take “effective counter-measures” against a recrudescence of Nazism.
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