Responsible German authorities here are concerned over the latest series of anti-Semitic incidents to be reported from various parts of West Germany, it was learned today.
These incidents are viewed as signs which must put Germans of goodwill on their guard. Germans close to the situation believe this is not necessarily attributable to a revival of Nazism, but may be a periodic outbreak of anti-Semitism such as has plagued Central Europe for centuries and flared occasionally into pogroms. Among these latest manifestations has been a rash of threatening letters addressed to prominent members of the tiny Jewish community.
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