The Foreign Ministry of the Soviet Union charged officially today that “hardly a day passes without some Nazi or anti-Semitic outburst” in West Germany. Moscow made this accusation in notes delivered to the Moscow Embassies of the British, American, French and West German governments, according to reports received here. The note delivered to the German Government was accompanied by demands that it “take appropriate measures to cut short the activities of neo-Nazi and militarist forces.”
The USSR charged West Germany with laying the foundation for a nuclear missile industry and warned that “meetings, demonstrations and torch processions are held in West German cities that bear striking likeness to the Nazi gatherings of the thirties.” This was a reference to the period preceding Hitler’s rise to power. “Who can guarantee, in these conditions, ” the note asked, “that some new Hitler will not appear in West Germany, and armed with nuclear weapons to boot?”
Successes of the ultra-rightist National Democratic Party in recent elections in Hesse and Bavaria were also cited by Moscow as a cause for alarm. The notes indicate that the Soviet Union felt its wartime allies had a major responsibility for the rise of neo-Nazism in West Germany.
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