— The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith today traced the anti-Semitic material seized last week by West German police to “three notorious purveyors of hate literature in the United States and Canada.” The three, named by Abraham Foxman, ADL’s associate national director and head of its International Affairs Division, as the source of the material are:
George Dietz, president of Liberty Bell Publications, Reedy, West Virginia; Gerhard Lauck, Lincoln, Nebraska, editor of “New Order,” an organ of the National Socialist Party of America; and Ernst Christof Friedrich Zundel, head of Samisdat Publishers, Ltd., Toronto, Canada.
According to Foxman, the presence of the stockpile of anti-Semitica from the U.S. and Canada in the homes of West Germany neo-Nazis is further proof of the international linkage of extreme rightist.
In citing Dietz, Lauck and Zundel, Foxman said ADL has monitored their “hate-mongering output” for many years. He added that “the existence of a transatlantic pipeline for anti-Semitica calls for greater vigilance by authorities on both sides of the ocean.”
EXAMPLES OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Foxman further asserted that international cooperation among extremists is not confined to the United States, Canada and West Germany but includes neo-Nazi groups in several other countries. He gave the following as examples:
The association of John Tyndall, leader of Great Britain’s new-fascist National Front, with J.B. Stoner, head of the racist, anti-Semitic National States Rights Party, (NSRP). Tyndall was the featured speaker at a NSRP meeting in 1979.
The sanctuary given by American hate groups in 1979 and 1980 to Manfred Roeder, a leading German neo-Nazi, when he was in this country as a fugitive from West German justice. Roeder, convicted of neo-Nazi activity, is currently in jail in West Germany.
The participation in October, 1980, of two leaders of the neo-Nazi Vlaamse Militanten Orde (VMO) in an NSRP conference in Marietta, Georgia, prior to their expulsion from the U.S. at the order of the State Department following an ADL protest.
BACKGROUND OF THE GANG OF THREE
According to ADL records:
Dietz came to the United States from Germany in 1957. His Liberty Bell Publications is a subsidiary of Raybar, Inc., a commercial printing business. Liberty Bell is one of the largest hate propaganda mills in the United States. It produces and distributes anti-Semitic books, envelope seals and bumper stickers with anti-Jewish slogans.
Lauck, a leader of the National Socialist Party of America, is also the head of the NSDAP (National Sozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter Partei Auslandorganization), a neo-Nazi group based in Nebraska.
Zundel, the spokesman for Concerned Parents of German Descent, has also been known as Christof Friedrich. He produces and distributes anti-Semitica in the form of books, pamphlets, leaflets, posters and cassettes.
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