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Nazi Expert on Anti-jewish Legislation to Visit U.S.; Protest Voiced

February 21, 1957
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was urged today to cancel a projected visit to Washington by Dr. Hans Globke, State Secretary in the West German Government who was one of Hitler’s experts on racial legislation

The appeal was made in a letter to Mr. Dulles from the Society for the Prevention of World War III, which declared that Globke’s visit late this month would be “an affront to the American people which could damage our prestige in the eyes of millions of victims of Nazism.”

The Adenauer Government announced plans last week for the visit of the Bonn official, who was accused by the Society of possession of a “notorious Nazi record.” Albert Simard, secretary of the Society, said the letter to Mr. Dulles had been sent to a number of Senators and Representatives. He stressed in his letter that Globke’s commentaries on the Nuremberg laws “formed the basis of the Nazi extermination program

Mr. Simard added that “Chancellor Adenauer’s selection of Globke as one of his key advisers has been denounced both in the German press and by German leaders.” He quoted a statement by Karl Gerold, publisher of the Frankfurter Rundschau, that Globke’s commentaries were “banners above the bloody trail of millions of murdered human beings of Jewish ancestry.”

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