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Student Organ Confiscated in Germany for Criticizing Nazi Students

June 9, 1959
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The latest issue of “Forum Academicum,” the monthly organ of the General Students Committee at Heidelberg University, was confiscated here today on a court order holding that the publication has “attacked the honor and personal rights” of a self-styled students’ fascist organization.

“Forum Academicum” has published an article, entitled “Brown Shirts Are Being Worn Again,” saying that the student fascist group is “engaging in anti-democratic and anti-Semitic” activities through its own mimeographed paper, entitled “Student and Volk.”

In that paper, the fascist students have published numerous articles supporting Nazi racist theories and saying that the figure of 6,000,000 Jews exterminated by Hitler was “largely exaggerated.” The court held, however, that the official publication of the students’ organization does not have the right to attack the “rights” of the fascist students.

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