Ludwig Zind, German high school teacher suspended and indicted on charges that he publicly said the Nazis had not gassed enough Jews, has been denounced for his anti-Semitic utterances by his own student fraternity, the Franconia Fraternity at Freiburg University.
The group, whose remarks have aroused widespread interest in West Germany, said it was “incomprehensible” that anyone could declare himself an anti-Semite” after the suffering which racial madness brought on Germany and on Europe. The fraternity asserted that “our love for our people and our history cannot prevent us from completely condemning the crimes which were committed in the twelve dark years (of Nazism.)”
Students at the University of Wurzburg have launched an attack on Prof. Theodor Maunz, Minister of Education of Bavaria, on the basis of his record of cooperation with the Nazis. Among the evidence cited linking Prof. Maunz with the Nazis was his delivery in October 1936 of a paper on “Jewry in Administrative Law” at a Nazi legal conference called specifically to “free the German spirit from all Jewish falsification.”
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