Jewish organizations today issued statements here expressing fears over the rising strength of the National Democratic Party in Germany, which is considered a neo-Nazi group, as shown in last Sunday’s elections in Bavaria and two weeks earlier in the state elections in Hesse.
A statement issued by Morris B. Abram, president of the American Jewish Committee, urged the Bonn Government “to redouble its efforts to maintain a vigilant alert in which the growth of the National Democratic Party and all other extreme-rightist elements are carefully observed, using the schools, the churches, the mass media and the courts as a grand coalition to counteract these growing signs of a Nazi revival.”
Dr. Joachim Prinz, speaking for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, called upon the German people and the German Government to reject these ultra-nationalistic trends before they acquire substantial power. “For the sake of the German people as well as for the security of this planet, every means must be employed in Germany to insure that there shall be no revival of Nazi ideology, no return to Nazi fanaticism, no restoration of Nazi political power,” he said in his statement.
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