Dr. Max Beer, vice-president of the International League for the Rights of Man and outstanding expert on Germany, said here today that the spirit of Hitler was still alive in West Germany and would remain an influence “as long as some of his former subordinates are members of the Bonn Government and as long as his judges and teachers dominate courtrooms and schools.”
Speaking at a meeting of the Jewish Federation here. Dr. Beer said Hitler’s influence would continue also “as long as many Germans do not accuse him of having destroyed their country but accuse the foreign peoples and Jews whom he attacked.”
He denounced Dr. Hans Globke, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Secretary of State, who wrote the official Nazi commentary to the Nuremberg Laws which excluded Jews from the national and human community, “thus preparing the way for their extermination.” He said the spate of anti-Semitic daubings which followed the Christmas Eve desecration of the Cologne synagogue were “a harmless follow-up to the much more serious anti-Semitic and Nazi manifestations going on for many years.”
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