Thousands of students from all colleges and high schools in West Berlin participated today in a demonstration against the recent anti-Semitic incidents organized by the student body and faculty of the West Berlin Free University. The demonstration, held at the site of West Berlin’s memorial to the victims of Nazism, attracted additional thousands of non-students.
Professor Edward Neumann, Chancellor of the Free University, told the assembly that no restitution could ever make up for the crimes committed against the Jews during the war. A student leader, Gerhard Gruenbeim, told his fellow-students that “we have neglected so much that we are all responsible for what has happened recently.” A member of the West Berlin City Senate, Joachim Lipschitz, also addressed the throng.
West Berlin police last night arrested Rudolf Kemmerich, 20, federal chairman of the neo-Nazi National Student Union.
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