Given the opportunity, anti-Semitism might again find favor among certain groups in Germany, Senator Joachim Lipschitz of West Berlin, told a gathering at the New School for Social Research here, where a luncheon was tendered in his honor, “But such an opportunity does not presently exist,” he added.
Anti-Semitic groups in Germany, Senator Lipschitz declared, have not found in the Germany of today conditions favorable for organized expression, either cultural or political. The Nazi experience has created in Germany a united front, he asserted, reaching far beyond the Jewish population, of all democratic groups for the protection of rights of minorities. The younger generation in Germany, he said, is not generally susceptible to extremes of racial doctrine.
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