The Rhine-Westphalian Government cracked down today on a neo-Nazi Organization and ordered dissolution of the so-called “Association of Persons Injured by Internment or de-Nazification.” The State Ministry of the Interior charged that many of the organization’s leaders were former high-ranking Nazis. It closed the organization’s anti-Semitic publication.
In a statement today, the ministry said that “although there is no real danger of neo-Nazism in Germany, ” movements such as this must be nipped in the bud. The ministry accused the association of maintaining underground connections with Nazi and SS elements throughout Europe and North Africa, including one group known as “The Cairo Friends.’
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