A sensational renunciation of Nazism and anti-Semitism was issued to the press today by Captain C. Lembcke, founder of the first Danish Nazi Party in 1930, who retired from political life in 1934 after serving a five-month sentence for insulting Prime Minister Theodor Stauning.
Announcing his return to political activity, Captain Lembcke declared: “I sincerely deplore my former support of such German things as Nazism and such absurdities as Jewish persecution. It is unworthy and unchivalrous for the Danish nation to attack a weak people.”
He concluded by apologizing both to the Danish and the Jewish people, promising to fight this “confusion of national consciousness.”
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