The newspaper Abend-Zeitung charged today that the Ku Klux Klan has enrolled 2,000 members among United States forces stationed in West Germany and that the Klansmen have acclaimed Adolf Hitler as “an idol.”
U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg denied knowledge of Klan activity in West Germany and said that existence of any group within the Army numbering 2,000 could not go unnoticed. The Army said it would not permit KKK activity of any kind among United States soldiers.
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