The British National Socialist movement has printed and sent to neo-Nazis in West Germany thousands of anti-Semitic pamphlets, a spokesman for the British Nazis said here today.
Martin Webster made the disclosure in commenting on reports that anti Jewish material, bearing signatures of the British Nazi movement, had been found plastered on windows and walls of the Jewish Community House in West Berlin. (Swastikas were also found to have defiled the walls of a West Berlin synagogue yesterday.) The British Nazi said most of the material had been mailed first to West German firms and after that “for public distribution.”
He admitted that many protests against the mailings had been received at British Nazi headquarters from West German recipients. He said that one agency in West Germany had been in “frantic and regular” contact with the Home Office and Scotland Yard, to pressure the British Nazis into halting mailing of the material. However, he added, West German federal authorities “are not aware it is not a crime in Britain to be a National Socialist.” He added that there was no way through which Scotland Yard could stop his movement from sending its anti-Semitic mail to Germany.
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