ber of letters protesting against the dismissal of Prof. Bergel and stating that the teaching of German has been converted into a lecture course praising Nazism.
An independent investigation conducted by the Civil Liberties Union, into the Bergel case disclosed that all the teachers in the German department of the college are German citizens. It was also disclosed that because of the Nazi propaganda the number of students attending the German courses has greatly declined.
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