The Canadian Jewish Congress declared in a statement today that it viewed with “the gravest concern” the recent electoral gains in West Germany by the National Democratic Party, an extremist group widely considered to be neo-Nazi. The NDP won eight seats recently in the Hesse parliamentary elections, its first in a West German state Parliament.
The Congress said “this electoral success should immediately produce a reflex action on the part of any of those who remember how from very small beginnings a movement grew which was one of the most bestial in world history.” The statement said Germany had a duty, “not only to itself but to the rest of mankind, not to generate the same frightful regime.”
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