Gerhard Schroeder, the former West German Foreign Minister who once belonged to the Nazi Party and the SA (stormtroopers) was received by Deputy Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Navon today after touring Jerusalem. Schroeder’s arrival at Lydda Airport yesterday was without incident although a group of concentration camp survivors and resistance fighters protested his invitation and threatened to demonstrate. The German diplomat did not visit the Yad Vashem memorial to Nazi victims where West Germany’s incumbent Foreign Minister. Walter Scheel laid a wreath on his visit here in July. Scheel was a target of demonstrators and hecklers but Schroeder’s visit has aroused only mild controversy. In contrast to the SS, membership in the SA is not automatically associated with war crimes.
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