Otto Strasser, the leader of the dissident Nazi “Black Front” sect, who returned to Germany last month from Canada, is vigorously assailed by “Frankfurter Allgemeine,” influential conservative daily, for the anti-Semitic propaganda campaign he resumed almost immediately after his return.
In Munich, Strasser had told the press that the Jews of Germany would either have to “assimilate” or face the loss of German citizenship. As foreign nationals, Germany should treat them in the same fashion as German nationals are treated in Israel, he said.
Such inflammatory propaganda should be countered by having the Federal Constitutional Court strip Strasser of his constitutional rights, demands the paper. “We know these tunes,” it points out. “Herr Hitler also started his campaign with the expressed wish that the Jews be deprived of their citizenship. We hope that neither the government nor the people merely look on silently and inactively as this Strasser propaganda goes on. This time we do not have the excuse that we did not know any better, because the past is our warning.”
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