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The Water mes Dirtier and Dirtier

At the same time that Adenauer's personal secretary of

state, Clobke, was playing Father Christmas for Bonn

orphans - not far from Bonn, in Cologne, synagogues were

being besmirched with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans.

The perpetrators were two young fellows, members of the

fascist German Reich Party (DRP). They were the culprits,

they executed the deed, but were they alone to blame?

The chief culprit, Arnold Strunk, was born in 1934.

When Hitlerite fascism in Germany was destroyed Arnold

Strunk was 11 years old. Thus he could not have carried

anti-Semitism all that time in his head.

But for the next 14 years, until that Christmas Eve in

1959 when he wrote "Perish the Jews!" on the Cologne

synagogue, he had lived in Western Germany. In that

period his thoughts had developed. What he had learned

in school in the state between the Rhine and the Elbe, what

he read in pamphlets and newspapers, what he saw in the

cinema and heard on the radio poisoned his mind. The

result was that infamous action in Cologne.

If the dragon seeds of anti-Semitism bring forth fruit

today in Western Germany the blame rests with the Bonn

state, on its educational system, on its government.

Cologne was only the beginning. In the days and weeks

which followed the dirty anti-Semitic wave flooded the

whole of Western Germany. After Cologne came Braun¬

schweig, Offenbach, Gelsenkirchen, Kitzingen, Gottingen,

Wurzburg, Kiel, Diisseldorf, Hamburg, Dortmund, Nurem¬

berg, Hannover - nearly all the large cities and

innumerable small towns and communities in Western

Germany were gripped by this wave of anti-Semitism. The

police in West Berlin registered (according to an official

announcement of the internal committee of the West

Berlin legislative assembly) about 40 anti-Semitic incidents

in the period from January 2nd to 7th 1960 alone. During

the same period anti-Semitic excesses took place in

several West European countries.

Is it not reasonable to suppose that this anti-Semitic

wave was organized? And, in fact, from where it began,

namely from the soil of Western Germany?

Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Freiburg/Breisgau

ivere desecrated

"We need a 'national' wave"

Arnold Strunk will not be able to give us an answer to

this question. He was a tool, he was seduced into this.

Those who pulled the strings, the organizers of this anti-

Semitic campaign, are in high places and in the top

functions of the government of the Adenauer state. They

are in the "Ministry of Defence” of Herr Strauss and in

his "Office of Psychological Warfare”.

War Minister Strauss declared at the meeting of the

NATO Council in December 1959 in Paris: "The cold war

will not end . . . There is no spirit of Camp David. This

expression, 'spirit of Camp David’, has become a com¬

munist propaganda trick the aim of which is the

liquidation of the cold war.” A confidential information

report of the Ministry of the Interior of the province of

Hesse in Western Germany indicates that on December

18th 1959 — that is, six days before the anti-Semitic wave

began - a discussion by specialists of the Bonn Office of

Psychological Warfare was held. At this meeting Major

Fred Sagner, who is directly subordinate to Minister

Strauss, drew the following conclusion:

"Minister Strauss gave us the cue in his Paris

speech . . It was now finally necessary "to strike a

stronger tone. We must finish with weakness and soft

people.” Even if it did not please some people abroad.

“We can no longer take that into consideration. We need

a national wave.”

Besmirched on Christmas Eve: the Cologne synagogue

And the "national (read anti-Semitic) wave” came. Six

days later it began in Cologne and it spread with alarming

rapidity throughout the whole of Germany. Who can there¬

fore speak of "chance” or of individual aberrations as the

press faithful to the West German state did? This was a

carefully prepared campaign such as the accursed

practices of Goebbels, Goring and Himmler of which

millions of people still have frightful memories.

And Bonn Minister Strauss gave the cue for it . . .

He fired the starting gun: War Minister Struuss

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Hitler’s "people's courts", Taubert shares responsibility

for many death sentences against German and foreign

resistance fighters. This Goebbels-like master pupil of

anti-Semitism, this eternal nazi, Dr. Eberhard Taubert, is

today head of the political department of the Bonn Office

of Psychological Warfare.

Organizer of Anti-Semitism

But Taubert is by no means the only prominent nazi and

sworn anti-Semite who, in the era of Chancellor Adenauer,

has again been made respectable Dr. Hans Globke, that

friendly old gentleman who on December 24th 1959 played

Father Christmas to the Bonn orphans, was the ill-famed

commentator of the "Nuremberg Laws”. During the

frightful rule of fascism he prepared ideologically and

justified legally the murder of six million Jews. From the

pen of Globke came these words, written in 1935:

"Judaism forms an alien body in all European

countries ... In his blood and essence the Jew is com¬

pletely foreign to us. Therefore dissolution is the only

possible solution.”

Globke's former chief, nazi Minister of the Interior

Dr. Frick, was executed in Nuremberg in 1945 as a war

criminal. Globke himself is today secretary of state and

personal adviser to his new chief, Dr. Konrad Adenauer...

Theodor Oberlander, active nazi, continues to act as the

Federal Chancellor’s advisor on "eastern questions",

although the West German government was compelled to

remove him from his post as "Minister for Re-settlers”,

which he had held since 1953. Adenauer was forced to

take this step because in the spring of 1960 the Supreme

Court of the German Democratic Republic condemned

Oberlander to life imprisonment with hard labour for

incitement to murder and participation in the murder of

Jews.

Oberlander took part in the Hitlerite putsch in 1923 and

was therefore one of the original nazis.

SA Hauptsturmfuhrer, Gau office director, provincial

director of the so-called "Folk League for Germans

Abroad" (the international fifth column of German

fascism), Hitler’s Reich Leader of the League of the

German East - those were the posts held by Oberlander.

But even more - from authentic documents it is evident

that Oberlander played a role in the "Gleiwitz Action”,

with which Hitler prepared the attack on Poland in 1939.

The book published in February 1960 by the Committee for

German Unity, “Die Wahrheit iiber Oberlander” (The

Truth about Oberlander), proves, on the basis of 50 photo-

Unrepentant and without shame: the young desecrators of

the synagogue before the court. And ivhy not? The

spiritual fathers of their fascist excesses rejoice in the

further favour of the Bonn chancellor

Braunbuch

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The brown book, “The Truth about Oberldnder”, reveals

the fascist crimes of one of Bonn’s “eastern experts.”

static copies, excerpts from 13 books, pamphlets and

articles from the nazi period as well as 28 depositions from

Polish, Soviet, German and Israel citizens, the serious

complicity of the present Adenauer advisor in the fascist

massacre of Jews in Lvov.

When the former nazi "Fiihrungsoffizier” Oberlander

advanced to the rank of Minister in the West German

state in 1953 he filled a number of important posts with

old friends from the League of the German East. They still

occupy these posts and are propagating a new "drive to

the East". Oberlander himself has had to relinquish his

post in face of world protest, but he remains chairman of

a group of revanchist functionaries in the CDU (Christian

Democratic Union) and member of the West German

Federal Parliament.

The "models" remain behind the scenes

Young people need human models. But whom does

Bonn give them as models worthy of imitation? Ober-

Idnder, Globke and Taubert, the persecutors of the Jews;

the former SA-man and present Minister of the Interior,

Schroder; the Hitler-serving General Speidel who deliver¬

ed thousands of French patriots to the knife and who

today is Bonn's representative in NATO headquarters?

It is a fact that today in Western Germany and West

Berlin there are 1,250 fascist and militarist organizations,

including more than 40 SS associations; that the West

German army is commanded by 130 generals and admirals

all of whom held leading positions in Hitler's Wehrmacht;

that the West German and West Berlin police are oper¬

ated by former SA and SS leaders; that 85% of the

officials in the Bonn foreign ministry and embassies were

nazi diplomats; that there are 1000 nazi judges and

prosecuting attorneys in the West German courts who

pronounced death sentences against countless anti¬

fascists and Jews; that in 90 % of all West German

schools the Jewish pogroms and mass murders in the

fascist concentration camps are passed over in silence.

Those are irrefutable facts.

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Fact: 1,250 fascist and militarist organizations operate in

West Germany and West Berlin

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"One should look carefully behind the scenes", wrote

the West German newspaper "Hanauer Anzeiger". "Whom

may we not discover there! Most certainly people who,

in the Hitler regime, occupied high positions and who in

words and writing inveighed against the Jews and

favoured their annihilation."

The Paris newspaper "L'Aurore” is 100 % right when it

demands that "we must go higher and seek those respon¬

sible among the high officials."

If the pernicious influence from above were to stop, it

would also foster a halt below. The pernicious influence

from above, from the old and new nazis in Bonn who

again artificially cultivate chauvinism and race hatred -

that is the source from which sprang that dirty brown wave

of anti-Semitism in Western Germany. This wave must be

halted, the war criminals and active nazis must entirely

disappear from all parts of the Adenauer state.

"If (in Western Germany - author) all important

positions were occupied by opponents of the Hitler

regime, the survivors would never need to mourn their

desecrated dead . . wrote the newspaper "Judisches

Gemeindeblatt" in Diisseldorf, Western Germany, already

on August 25th 1948.

Twelve years ago! The responsible politicians in Western

Germany have had twelve years since then to implement

the four-power Potsdam Agreement, to root out nazism

and militarism and to democratize Western Germany.

History is an inexorable judge. Its judgment on the

rule of the Adenauer government runs as follows: This

regime has never at any time had any serious intention

of breaking with the accursed past of the “Third Reich"

or of building a new life of peace, democracy and under¬

standing among the peoples. The unholy spirit of Ausch¬

witz, Maidanek and Treblinka, inspired by those who share

responsibility for the murder of six million Jews, is being

restored in Western Germany . . .

That is why the storm of protest against the revival of

anti-Semitism in Western Germany, their NATO ally, is

growing in such countries as Britain, France and Norway.

hen AusbIIdung3lag era aowie am Diana t 1m Gemeimeohaftalager

ana Z&erl teilgenommen.

In Hamburg nahm loh 1928 an der GrUndung das dortlgan

tionalaozialistiachen Schiilerbundea tail, dam loh bis 193o as

bbrte. Der HSDAP trat loh am l.llal 1933 bai. Von 1933-34

iBrte ich dam HS-Studentenbund an und leitate in Freiburg

1 Frankfurt studantiache Arbeitegemeinachaften. In den Seme-

trferien war loh ala Schulungaleiter bel der Bitler-Jugend is

tons tatig. Seitvl935 geh&re loh dam B-Rechtewahrerbund an,

Lterhln bin loh liltglled dee HS-Altherrenbundeatt**d <6# A'f-

Berlln.den 1941

( Dr. Orewe )

Nothing new in the German West: The biography of

Ambassador Dr. Wilhelm Grewe

Forgers at work

In 1945 the organizers of the gas chambers concealed

their responsibility - insofar as they were not executed

in Nuremberg - and cringed with fear before the wrath of

the people like rats in their holes. Now they have reap¬

peared, they are now ministers and secretaries of state,

police officers and judges, writers and teachers. And as

before they seek to shift the responsibility for their infamy

on to others. “The communists are responsible for the

anti-Semitic excesses”, they write. Like Goring who set fire

to the Reichstag in 1933 and then cried: "The com¬

munists did it. Lock them up, kill them!”

On January 2nd 1960 an official declaration of the West

German federal press bureau stated: "There is evidence

that the outrages are part of a planned action to defame

the Federal Republic in the eyes of the world public.”

The Bonn government had this declaration delivered to

all governments with which it has diplomatic relations

via its missions in foreign countries.

On January 19th 1960 the Bonn war ministry gave to all

western press services indexed "material” of the "highest

secrecy”, showing that "communists and the German

Democratic Republic” were responsible for the fascist

and anti-Semitic excesses. This falsified material was, on

the instructions of Minister Strauss, fabricated by Hitlerite

General Gehlen’s secret service with the cooperation of

the anti-Comintern specialist, Dr. Taubert . . .

This clumsy forgery won no plaudits even from the anti¬

communist West German newspapers.

"The Niirnberger Nachrichten” recalled, in its issue of

January 20th 1960, "that even earlier, on the occasion of

the desecration of a Diisseldorf synagogue, a communist

was similarly accused - and as it later turned out, com¬

pletely falsely.” The West Berlin daily newspaper "Span-

dauer Volksblatt” wrote on January 22nd 1960 "In Bonn

they frequently say that Herr Taubert is seeking evidence

that communist agents have taken part in the anti-Semitic

incidents.”

And the London "Daily Mirror" comes to the conclusion:

"Attempts will be made to blame the communists. But the

truth is that the old incorrigible extremists, who at the end

of the war cringed in their hiding places, have now come

out into the open again.” (Retranslated from German.)

Convicted of deception

As a Chinese saying has it: "one should not stir up dirty

water." The old extremists in Bonn, however, continue to

stir up the dirty water of anti-communism.

Already at the beginning of 1948 they affirmed, in the

ill-famed "Protocol M”, that the communists intended to

organize armed struggle in the Ruhr. The "protocol" was

unmasked as a forgery in April 1948.

On September 22nd 1949 two alleged "returnees from

Soviet war prisons”, Siegfried Kluger and Thilo Wagner,

appeared with slanders against the Soviet Union before

the Bonn parliament. On April 25th, 1950 they were

unmasked in court as notorious swindlers.

In February 1955 the West German government "dis¬

covered” an alleged letter from Walter Ulbricht, first

secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, to the

national council of the National Front of Democratic

Germany on "agitation in the Federal Republic before the

ratification of the Paris treaty.” The West German news¬

paper "Westfalische Rundschau” exposed the forgery on

February 21st 1958. It pointed out that this fetter was

fabricated by the West Berlin espionage organization call¬

ed the "Fighing Group Against Inhumanity” on the

instructions of Chancellor Adenauer.

Stephan, professional spy and former employee of the

fascist Gestapo (secret state police) sold a "document"

to Adenauer according to which two West German

officials of the Social Democratic Party had been "bribed

by the GDR with 10,000 marks”. In November 1957

Stephan was convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison.

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Leader of anti-Semitism: Secretary of State for Internal

Affairs in the Office of the Federal Chancellor in

Western Germany, Hans Globke

Two sides of a coin

"I know the way, I know the text, I also know the

author . . wrote the great German Poet of Jewish

origin, Heinrich Heine, a hundred years ago. He could

have written thus about the West German extremists of

today who are trying in vain to put the blame for their own

complicity in anti-Semitic excesses in Western Germany

on to the "communists and the GDR’\ The forgers are

pilloried, exposed, divested of their white waistcoats of

innocence for everyone in the world to see.

Anti-Semitism does not exist in the German Democratic

Republic, but in Western Germany it is the logical

accompaniment of the restoration of German imperialism.

Anti-Semitism and militarism are the two sides of the same

coin.

The ruling circles in Bonn are making Western Germany

the heart of European reaction, from which fascist impul¬

ses and barbaric ideas flow over the frontiers. That is the

undeniable fact, alarming to all people of good will,

which emerges from that "national” wave which began on

Christmas Eve 1959 in Cologne . . .

The GDR is no fertile soil for anti-Semitism. The progres¬

sive forces amongst the German people recognize and

oppose in the anti-Semites the forces which are the deadly

enemies of humanism, freedom and progress. Faithful to

the traditions of decades of struggle, the working class

and other progressive forces in the German Democratic

Republic have exterminated anti-Semitism and fascism by

its roots. In the German Democratic Republic there has

been no desecration of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries,

no chalking up of swastikas.

There is no fertile soil in the first German peace state

for racist and nationalist hate propaganda. Here there

are no Oberlanders or Globkes, no SS associations and

no nazi judges.

In the GDR the state and public life has been demo¬

cratized from the ground up, in accordance with the

provisions of the Potsdam Agreement. This new demo¬

cracy, the democracy of the people, guarantees the same

Throughout Western Germany and West Berlin: protests

of the people against militarism and fascism

rights to all citizens, irrespective of their religion, nation¬

ality and race. This of course also applies to Jewish

citizens, the great majority of whom are recognized as

victims of the nazi regime in the GDR. This gives them a

number of privileges, including higher pensions.

In the German Democratic Republic there are seven

Jewish communities which are joined together in the

“Association of Jewish Communities of the GDR". In

addition there is a Jewish community in Greater Berlin.

Each of these communities has its own administration and

receives generous financial support from the state budget

for its activities.

Today the Jewish communities in the GDR have nine

synagogues and a chapel at their disposal. In addition

the construction and restoration of synagogues is carried

out entirely with state funds. The state provided 1.2 million

marks to build new synagogues in Berlin, Erfurt, Karl Marx

Stadt, Magdeburg and Dresden, The government of the

GDR allocates 200,000 marks a year for the upkeep of

Jewish cemeteries which are all the property of the Jewish

communities. The Jewish communities also own homes for

the aged and rest and convalescent homes which are also

assisted by the state.

Jewish citizens have complete freedom in the practice

of their religion, the religious instruction of believers,

religious services, religious education, etc. The Jewish

communities have their own literature. Many Jewish

citizens work in responsible positions in the state and

economy, in the democratic parties and mass organi¬

zations. They are members with full and equal rights in a

state which is built on the socialist principles of mutual

respect and friendly cooperative life.

The Jewish citizens of the GDR feel secure and happy.

The cares which beset Jewish citizens in Adenauer’s state

again today are unknown to them. ’’There are already

Jewish communities”, wrote the West German newspaper

"Frankische Tagespost” on January 7th 1960, "which are

seriously thinking of emigrating because they fear the

repetition of January 30th 1933, which led to the Nurem¬

berg Laws and the gas chambers in the concentration

camps.” A peace treaty points the way

Many Jewish citizens in Western Germany again fear a

repetition of the nazi crimes, a new "Crystal Night,” and

are haunted by the frightful vision of fascist concentration

camps, because in this state the old unholy spirit is being

stirred up anew in the highest government positions. Peace

and security for Jewish citizens can only exist when mili¬

tarism and anti-Semitism are eliminated in Western

Germany. The draft of a peace treaty with Germany points

the way.

The Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic,

Otto Grotewohl, declared on January 8th 1960 in con¬

nection with the anti-Semitic and fascist excesses in

Western Germany: "The most effective way to call a halt

to such disastrous developments is the conclusion of a

peace treaty on the basis of the principles of the anti-

Hitler coalition, as has been proposed by the German

Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union.”

Article 14 of this peace document says "that all persons

under German jurisdiction irrespective of race, sex,

language, religion, nationality, origin or political con¬

viction, enjoy the rights of man and basic liberties . .

It is not only in the interest of the German people and

their Jewish fellow-citizens that a democratic peace treaty

be finally concluded with Germany, but also in the interest

of all peace-loving, humanitarian-minded people.

Anti-Semitism and militarism in Western Germany must

be destroyed completely and for all time. That is the

warning, the demand and the call to struggle of millions

of people throught the world who hold aloft the banner of

humanity.

The Jewish synagogue in Erfurt, GDR. The government

allocated 300,000 marks for this new building

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