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German Provincial Officials Pardon Nazi Teachers, Permit Them to Return to Profession

November 2, 1950
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A number of former Nazi Party members and leading Nazi officials have been pardoned and permitted to once again resume their teaching activities in public and private schools in Wherttemberg-Baden, it was reported here today.

An investigation, by officials of the United States Public Safety Branch, revealed that in ten months of 1949 German officials of the province pardoned 171 teachers who had been barred from their profession for having held important poets in the Nazi Party, the Nazi propaganda system, and the Nazi Racial Problems Bureau. At least 47 of these have since resumed teaching, the report said. The report is unofficially said to have caused the State Department to demand action to correct the situation.

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