A list of 450 European supporters of George Lincoln Rockwell’s world Nazi movement, based in Arlington, Va., has been transmitted to the United States Ambassador in Vienna, Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Vienna Jewish Documentation Center, revealed today in an address before the National Press Club. The neo-Nazis to whom Mr. Wiesenthal referred live in Europe in various countries, including Germany and Austria.
Mr. Wiesenthal, who claims to have exposed Nazi SS criminal, Franz Stangl, who was recently arrested in Brazil, told the club that he has received information that the Volkswagen Automobile Company, which employed Stangl, is providing him with legal assistance to fight extradition. He said there was evidence of rising anti-Semitism in West Germany.
In Austria, greater anti-Semitism today exists than in West Germany, according to Mr. Wiesenthal. But he said some officials of the Austrian Government were opposing such tendencies. Commenting on the role of the Vatican in connection with Nazism, Mr. Wiesenthal said that many Nazi war criminals received identity cards from the Vatican, enabling them to escape after World War II.
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