he a Toe Regge oh wt iv uc evi Def ? ee ren, fo fegnag a tee cin. Au ii 4 a ao Hitler in life-size in the shop window of Hamburg’s Weitbrecht & Marissal bookstore. These photos serve not so much to advertise the pictorial volume “Adolf Hitler” as to propagate the new Hitler cult. By ARND BEMMANN In the shop-windows of the Western Bookshops there is a growing flood of publications which aim at whitewashing fas- cism and the Hitlerite war. At the Frankfort Book Fair last Sep- tember some fifty titles alone manifested this purpose. They included the memoires of Hit- ler’s armament minister Speer, the pro-fascist records of the wife of Hitler's deputy and main war criminal Rudolf Hess and the two volume-edition “Die Deutschen Feldzuege (German Military Campaigns) from 1939 to 1945” compiled by six former Wehrmacht generals and colo- nels. Another remarkable feature is the fact that the Hitlercult is likewise increasingly ‘spreading. A number of books, directly concerned with Hitler’s person, attempt to depict him as an in- telligent, passionate advocate of national interests and fighter against communism whose aims, despite his possibly pathologic An International Conference in Moscow called upon the gov- ernments of all countries to join the convention concerning the non-applicability of limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity, which ‘was adopted by the U.N. Gene- ral Assembly last November. The Conference on Prosecu- ‘tion of Nazi Criminals,’ declared’ ” statutory . symptoms and mistakes arising therefrom, had _ nevertheless sprung from “pure and noble sources.” Among those books we found “Hitler’s Table Talks,” “Hitler’s Speeches and Proclama- tions,” “The Leader in Private Life” and a dozen of more or less voluble writings or so-called documentations. One highlight of that campaign is, undoubtedly, the pictorial vol- ume ‘Adolf Hitler’ which came off the press late in 1968 (Chris- tian Wegner-Verlag, Hamburg). It contains some 200 photos of the nazi dictator from the ar- chive of Hitler’s personal photo- grapher Heinrich Hoffmann. They show Hitler in all kinds of poses, as self-assured party lead- er, as statesman with a top hat professing his peaceful ambi- tions, as conqueror of Vienna, Prague and Paris and as military leader taking the review and clamouring for final victory. And time and again in large format there is Hitler with a party or a general's cap, just as required. Just like similar books, this in an appeal to peoples and gov- ernments that all these crimin- als must be punished. The con- ference proclaimed September 1, the beginning of the second world war, international day of the struggle against fascism. It is noted in the appeal that the activities of revanchist and neo-Nazi forces, demanding a revision of the results of the PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 11, 1969—Page 10 volume is set on supporting the NPD-propaganda in West Ger- many. The pages of the book are bound in such a way that Hit- ler’s photographs may easily be taken out and framed. ‘The ideological message of this pictorial volume carefully avoids any confrontation of the viewer with the real face of fas- cism, the concentration camps, the shooting of hostages and the millions of war victims. Hitler remains here the “indefatigable worker,” the “lover of flowers and animals,” “the eternal sol- dier,” “the fighter for an idea.” Last November and December, large-size reproductions from his book were exhibited in a great number of West Germany book- shops. These booksellers are eager to sell this sort of Hitler- image to the West German citi- zens. This latest publication is therefore a visible demonstration within the West German re-nazi- fication process and clearly indi- cates its threatening extent. —Panorama DDR Conference demands Nazis be brought to justice war, are intensifying in West Germany. The question of pun- ishing all those guilty in crimes against peace and mankind is becoming urgent. Also because peace and democracy are being threatened in some other parts of the planet. The conference also adopted a resolution in which American aggression in Vietnam, Israeli It is just over one year ago, April 4th, 1968 to be exact, when one of America’s great- est sons, and one of the world’s most beloved leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King, was gunned down in Memphis, Tennesee, by an assassin’s bullet. Just a few short years be- fore his tragic death, Martin uther King, speaking to 250,000 people gathered be- fore the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. spoke these memorable and histo ric words: “I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, and live out the true meaning of its creed; ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Geor- gia sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down toge- ther at the table of brother- hood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Missis- sippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, swelter- ing with the heat of oppres- sion, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin. I have a dream that one day in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sis- ters and brothers. “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be ex- alted, every hill and moun- tain shall be made low. The rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. “With this faith we will be able to hew out of the moun- tain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jang- ling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work toge- ther, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day, “When we allow freedom to ring—when we let it ring from every city and from every hamlet, from every state and from every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's chil- dren, black and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protest- ants and Catholics, wil! be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last, Free at last. Great God Al- mighty. We are free at last’.” Martin Luther King’s dream, a hope; call it what you like, no more beautiful words ex- pressing the hope of mankind, black and white alike, ever graced this or any other col- umn of print ever written. The assassin, James Earl | Ray has been apprehended, convicted and sentenced to || 99 years imprisonment, but the conspirators of a racist America who planned the as- sassination and bribed this poor tool to do their bidding are still at large, in the ranks of the KKK, among the duped and ignorant racists every- where, among the highest circles of government author- ity. One could well para- phrase the indomitable Bul- garian Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov, who chal- lenged his Nazi prosecutors with the burning of the Ger- man Reichstag on the eve of World War II, “You have this miserable Faust in your hands, but where is Mephistopheles?” The racist America will go to any lengths to hide, even to murder, as they did in their crude cover-up of the dastar- dly assassination of the late U.S. president John F. Ken- nedy. But the dream of. Mar- tin Luther King will not be silenced, and this mountain of evil and violence “shall be made low.” On this first memorial an- niversary of Dr. Luther King’s tragic passing and the cruel silencing of his _ inspiring voice which brought an ever- increasing hope and inspira- tion to all mankind, Canadian mothers from the Atlantic to the Pacific should read this dream often to their children —as a bed-time story, as the dream of a great Negro lead- er—or as a prayer. And, if a little child, black or white or brown should ask its mother, as a child often does, “Mama, do dreams come true?”’, the answer 1S already “blowing in the wind.” This one will. aggression in the Middle East and the fascist regime in Greece are condemned. The Rumanian Minister of Justice Adrian Dimitriu spoke in support of the U.N. convention, against all attempts of relieving nazi criminals from responsibil- ity. He also condemned U.S. ag- gression in Vietnam. However, the Rumanian delegation did not support the conference’s appeal and resolution, giving the reason that it has the au- thority only to participate at the conference, but has no author- ity to join any of its documents. Closing the conference, hea of the Soviet delegation Roman Rudenko, Procurator-General © the U.S.S.R. proposed to send the conference’s documents 1 the Secretary-General of the United Nations Organization , with the request that they Dé distributed among the members, The conference lasted foul § days. Statesmen and public figures, and!lawyers from European countries took part its work.