The famed Moscow Circus comes to Vancouver for an all too brief five days this month, bringing with its acrobat’, clowns, a troupe of trained house cats, soccer-playing bears and the superb horsemen from the Caucasian region of North Ossetia (above) directed by Tamerlan Nukzarov. Dressed in the full combat attire of 18th century Caucasian mountaineers, they perform acrobatic stunts and conduct a sword fight — all on horseback. Tass photo UKRAINIAN DANCE COMPANY 65 Dancers, Singers and Musicians Q.E. Theatre — Sunday, October 30 at 2:30 & 8:00 $8.50 - 7.00 - 6.00 Tickets at all Bay Box Offices — Open Daily 10-5:30 Phone Reservations 681-3351 — CHARGE THEM Sorry No Cheques Victoria Memorial Arena Tuesday, November 1 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets available at Memorial Arena and Hillside Mall Presented by CANSOV CONCERTS PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 7, 1977—Page 6 - Neo-Nazi revival — threatening FRG By FILS DELISLE The long-developing neo-Nazi revival in West Germany has now burst into the public arena with new forms, and new official respectability, posing a+ grave challenge to all the things for which 50 million people died in the last world war. At no time since the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 have former Nazis been absent from public office, from the judiciary and from positions of influence in industry and the media. But never before have Nazis — and Nazism — been flaunted so openly as in recent weeks. : A Bonn correspondent of Neues ‘Deutschland reported that ‘‘a brown wave of hitherto unknown dimensions is currently sweeping across the FRG’’. A West German newspaper announced: ‘‘Hitler is now the fashion’. And the organization of Jewish communities in the FRG is officially on record as stating that, in the wake of the resurgence of Nazi organizations and in the face of mounting anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish incidents, the Jews of West Germany are once again fearful of their future. Even in West Berlin, 110 miles inside the territory of the German Democratic Republic, the NSDAP, Hitler's official Nazi Party, is functioning in the open again, despite the fact that it was banned after the war. Throughout West Germany, officers of Hitler’s armies are -appearing at public meetings as “heroes’’. Veterans of Hitler’s elite troops, the SS, which performed the foulest crimes during the war and before, are arrogantly active in the so-called HIAG organization. They stage an average of 100 SS meetings per month and in Sep- tember alone they organized 180 such meetings to extol Hitlerite ideas. : One of their leaders, SS Colonel H. Rudel, has been addressing public meetings, including meetings of the Bundeswehr (the West German army) as the ‘“thero” most decorated by Hitler. Even Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s First Deputy, who was sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg, has been extolled by screaming Nazis at public meetings as “one of Germany’s greatest fighters for freedom.”’ Hitler is indeed now the fashion in the FRG. A film written by the West German journalist Joachim - Fest, entitled ‘‘Hitler — a Career’”’, is the main attraction of the West German film season. It is based on Fest’s book about Hitler, which has been only one of the many books recently which twist the Nazi past out of shape. Fest’s film debunks the well-documented thesis that Hitler was a representative of the top circles of imperialist Ger- many’s industry and finance. It glosses over Hitler’s efforts to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies and Sorbs, to slaughter all the populations opposing him (in- cluding the Germans), and to seize control of Europe and the whole world for his masters. It presents Hitler as a man who won the support of the German people, not through lies and terror, but through his own supposed strength and genius. , Another Hitler film similarly distorting the record of Hitler and the Nazis is also being exhibited in West German theatres. Further, the FRG’s mass television audience has in recent months been treated to a whole series of films about such top Nazi leaders as Himmler, Bormann, Goebbels and Heydrich with the obviously deliberate aim of making them look like human beings instead of mass murderers. A Mussolini film shown on West German TV had the same slant. Only a few weeks ago this in- credible development was climaxed by the showing of the Leni Riefenstal two-hour film “about Hitler on FRG television. The film was made in 1934 by Riefenstal at Hitler’s request and roused a storm of protest in the 1930’s outside of Germany. But now, on West German TY, it was given the full two-hour treatment, and was followed by 4 commentary by Hitler “whitewasher” Fest. He said with a straight face that the Riefenstal film, the work of Hitler’s personal film propagandist, ‘is a work of genius’’. With such an atmosphere in the FRG, one can buy records there with Hitler’s speeches, Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, Nazi propaganda containing racist filth and vilifying the Jews, songs of Hitler’s SS troops and newspapers like the National Zeitung, which praise Hitler in every issue and declare the Nazi murder of six ' million Jews to be ‘‘an Auschwitz lie”. , Even Willi Brandt, former West German chancellor and currently chairman of the Social Democratic Party, and the present chancellor, Helmut Schmidt; have warned against the growth of right wing and neo-Nazi forces in the FRG. But instead of taking resolute action to implement the ban on Nazism stipulated by the four- power Potsdam Agreement and by West German law, the Social Democratic-Liberal coalition government has given its blessing to former SS colonel and war criminal Herbert Kappler. Kappler, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy for his war crimes against Italians, was recently spirited out of an Italian military hospital and smuggled into West Germany. The West German government not only refused extradition of the war criminal, it granted him the protection of the state, a payment of half a million marks and a sizeable pension. ‘Blood Knot’ is held over For those who have been unable yet to see it, the Sepia Players’ acclaimed production of Athol Fugard’s The Blood Knot has been held over in response to audience - demand. Sponsored by. the Southern Africa Action Coalition, the play will now run until October 8, 8:30. p.m.. at the Flamingo Theatre, 2843 East Hastings in Vancouver. Phone 251-1045 for tickets. On October 14, Tamahnous opens it season as resident theatre company of the Vancouver East Cultural Centre with a production of Bertold Brecht’s St. Joan of the Stockyards. Written in 1929, the play is, according to Tamahnous’ interpretation, ‘‘a blend of satire, parody, and social analysis”’ set in the Depression years. Joan Dark is the naive crusader who sets out to reform the stockyards dominat by meat-packer magnate Pierpoint Mauler. Directed by Jane Heyman, St. Joan of the Stockyards runs Tuesday to ‘Saturday, 8:30 p.m. until November 5. Matinees are at 2:30 p.m. October 22, 29 and November 5.