The first expression of support for Gen. de Gaulle’s views on Israel and the Middle East to emerge from any Western political source was voiced here by the leader of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, Adolf von Thadden. He told a press conference today that Israel was endangering world peace by trying to impose its will on occupied Arab territories.
Von Thadden asserted at the press conference that the NPD has 27,000 members, including 1,500 soldiers presently in West Germany’s armed forces, that it intended to enter candidates in every district in the country in the 1969 elections and would spend six to seven times as much in the next campaign as in the previous one, This would indicate an expenditure of nine to 10 million marks (between $2.25 million and $2.5 million.) The expected result, according to von Thadden, would be at least 10 percent of the vote which would send 50 or more NPD deputies to the Bundestag, West Germany’s lower house.
Von Thadden, who put his party on record in support of Gen. de Gaulle’s Middle East position, also declared that he favored the 1939 Munich pact which he contended was still legal. The Munich agreement gave Hitler the Suedeten region of Czechoslovakia, leading to the dismemberment of that country by the Nazis and the outbreak of World War II.
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