By HANS W. AUST

: meRLIN — “We Germans are
{ nike gain No. 1 in Europe!” The
Pee West German Bild-
Ung recently decorated its
The peace ‘with that headline.
a ild-Zeitung happens to be
Weer eest daily newspaper in
‘oN Germany and is put out
A 7 Press tsar, Axel Springer,
butt time Nazi captain who
teret > his press empire with
Gest funds of the SS and the
| Ad deposited abroad.
ly. 18s of the working popu-
| 4 in the German Federal Re-
j temer does not agree with this
j “See Many people have
this Y Voiced their protest. But
typ &eat-power chauvinism is
hibe Of the methods which
"| Banda ae used to make propa-
| in ; or the 1972 Olympic city,
t Hite fn the same manner as the
HP}. People misused the Berlin
) Proper. &ames in 1936 to make
man pea for their Great Ger-
i ey eich,
not wich today, of course, is
H many st, Germany’s capital, but
) rei, Call it the country’s “‘sec-
! WN inet The city of 1,326,-
r Sof abitants is the headquar-
| hag’ the Deutsche Bank, which
all the need, and profited from,
itm 5, 72'S Of German imperial-
Wall ye ne Past 100 years, as
Similar set other banks with a
Wort istory- Above all, since
tome ful II Munich has be-
cy € greatest military-indus-
Smiex of the FRG.
Big Arms Plants

Indust st German armaments
bly “ea are once again operat-
| Mames g¢ SPeed in Munich, The
| Rate these firms, hated and
main the Second World War,
Only sli the same today: or are
Cide yently masked. They in-
Setschme airplane works of Mes-
branch Itt-Bolkow-Blohm AG, a
Pnayi of the Dornier works, the
tor a Aircraft GmbH, the mo-
"enWerke Of the Bavarian Moto-
| fabs; a AG, the Maschinen-
) nq the esburg-Nuernberg AG,
USS.M tank works. of the
Poduce affei AG, which mass
Nato S the Leopard tank for
Prieds “he latter was owned by
&d sf Flick, who was charg-
times “found guilty of war
“Wag ,. °t Nuremburg, but who
Tecenthy. 8iven his freedom and
nf aS td peacefully in bed.
the F the richest individual in
e + *he industrial empire
Whign ned, the full extent of
lege to Obody knows, has been
ANd is py pSORS and grandsons
"duste; Y far the FRG’s largest
Today SOnglomerate.
‘mized, ‘n Munich, the mod-
ar anatd and Keiler (wild
"Olling sl S are reported to be
i® thous the assembly lines in
N haq ands. By contrast, Hit-
han go 2 total of little more
*d the 774¢2nks when he invad-
whtom TSR in 1941.
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with the Saigon puppet regimel” read the banners.

ployed if the armaments produc-
tion is ended, and at the same
time they are backed into a cor-
ner by the mass importation of
cheap labor from foreign coun-
tries. Turks and Yugoslavs,
Greeks, Italians and Spaniards
already constitute a sword over
the heads of the native workers,
although at the same time the
immigrant workers are discrimi-
nated against on “racist” and
ethnic lines.

The government of the Land
(province or state) of Bavaria,
of which Munich is the capital
city, is dominated by the CSU
(Christian Social Union) of
Franz-Josef Strauss. It is a pure-
ly Bavarian party. In the last
municipal elections in Bavaria
the CSU received 45% of the
votes, against 36% for the SPD.
The NDP, an openly fascist
group, competes with the CSU
for the dubious honor of being
the most reactionary party.

The strong opposition of ae
workin ople finds its expres-
sion rnehe eet place in the DKP
(German Communist Party), and
secondly in the left wing of the
SPD (Social Democratic Party)
as well as in the Socialist Stu-
dents’ League. The leadership of
the SPD, however, punishes all
cooperation with the DKP by
expulsion from the party. The
revolt against such reactionary
tendencies in the party was
“contained” by Munich’s SPD
Lord Mayor only with great ef-
fort. The students especially have
protested against the collabora-
tion of their professors with the
munitions makers’ scientific re-
search institutions.

Espionage Centre

Munich is also the hesdapes
ters of the largest espionage OT-
ganization of the FRG. It was
built up in close collaboration
with the USA’s intelligence
agencies, by the chief of Hitler's
Wehrmacht intelligence organi-
zation, General Gehlen, who op-
erated with special hatred
against the Soviet Union. It has
the harmless sounding name of
Bundesnachrichtendienst (literal-
ly Federal Information Service),
but that should fool no one.

The Hamburg weekly news
magazine, Der Spiegel, last year
exposed the activities of this
revanchist organization, which
has its headquarters in the Mu-
nich suburb of Pullach. Its job
is gathering military and sub-
versive intelligence against the
Socialist states. This anti-Com-
munist organization 1s directly
responsible to the chief of the
Federal Chancellor's office in
Bont oe el

The same is true of the two
other secret service organiza-
tions in the FRG, the Bundesamt
fuer Verfassungsschutz and the
Militaerische Abschirmdienst.
Nevertheless, they spy on, and
intrigue against one another, a
plot thickened by the activities
of similar organizations of other
NATO powers in Munich and
other parts of West Germany. —

Radio Subversion
In addition, the notorious and
subversive U.S. radio stations,
Radio Liberty and Radio Free
Europe, also operate in Munich,
despite the protests of the West
German population and peace-

minded citizens of the USA._

They not only keep up a con-
stant barrage of counter-revolu-
tionary tirades and commen-
taries against the socialist
states, but also maintain espio-
nage networks in these coun-
tries. A Polish intelligence agent,
Captain A. Czechowicz, has
made far-reaching revelations
about their activities. Czecho-
wicz, an agent of the Polish
Ministry of the Interior, worked
for six years without detection
for Radio Free Europe in Mun-
ich. A small portion of the docu-
ments he took back to Poland
with him this past year has been
published up to now but it has
caused a sensation.

The Bonn government has met
all protests against the subver-
sive activities of the U.S. sta-
tions with the answer: what is

involved is an “internal affair of~

the FRG’! And the press chief
of the Organizing Committee of
the Olympic. Games of 1972,
coolly declared: “Radio Free
Europe is a reality which has the
right to broadcast.” The only
prcblem the press chief could
see was: how he would accredit
the correspondents of the sta-
tions, since their nationality is
“difficult to determine.”

Despite protests from all over
the world, including by such
personalities in the USA as
“Senator Fullbright, the U.S. hate-
inciting stations in Munich have
been given the right to continue
their fulminations all through
the Olympic Games, which are
supposed to be held in the spirit
of peace between the peoples.

Jungle of Evil

In “the secret capital” of the
FRG, the results of the unex-
ampled concentration — of impe-
rialism and militarism in the city
are now apparent. The poet
Wolfgang Koeppen, soon after
the Second World War, describ-
ed Munich, dominated by U.S.
occupation troops, black mar-
_keters,cwhores and) PIGRS, 25; 2

n Vietnam. “Stop U.S. terror bombing!”, “

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Down

jungle, a labyrinth populated by
dark forces, shrieking of the
madness for money, manic drun-
kenness and despair. That is
even truer of Munich in 1972,
the city that is the greatest
armaments centre in the FRG,
the greatest dealer in weapons
deliveries behind the scenes, the
city of manipulated Olympic
building projects, and of fren-

_ zied speculation in real estate.

The Revenge-Seekers

The Bavarian Land govern-
ment has provided a haven for
approximately 90 counter-revol-
utionary organizations of emig-
rants from the socialist coun-
tries. Many members of these
organizations work for the anti-
Communist Munich stations of
the FRG and the USA. Others
work in Munich on organizing
subversi¥e actions against
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia (es-
pecially the Ustashi fascists),
the GDR, Poland, Hungary and
especially the USSR. Leaders of
these organizations, incidentally,
frequently fall out with one an-
other and engage in mutual
murder.

The revanchist federations of
German emigrants from Silesia
(Poland), the Czech ‘“Sudeten-

Olympic city

land,” the Soviet and Polish

Baltic areas organize assemblies’

which bring together hundreds
of thousands of people in Mu-
nich. They raise a loud hue and
cry for all the “originally Ger-
man” territories which were at
one time or another subjugated
by German imperialism. Most of
those who come to these re-
vanchist gatherings are admit-
tedly drawn more than anything
else by the special low train
fares and the beauty of Munich’s
surroundings. But the _incite-
ment, directed by finance-capital
behind the scenes, is not without
its effects.

On the last “Day of the Home-
land,” one such_ revanchist
gathering, CDU chief and Chan-
cellor candidate Rainer Barzel
and press king Axel Caesar
Springer sent greetings to the
revanchists. The gathering was
protected, as, are all such sub-
versive demonstrations in Mu-
nich, by the local police, on
orders of the Social Democratic
mayor, despite the protests of
dozens of West German parlia-
mentary deputies, hundreds of
thousands of trade unionists and
many progressive writers.

Terrorist Acts

The same police, on the other
hand, have not been able to
track down, for some reason,
the arsonists: who set fire to a
Jewish old peoples’ home in
Munich, in which many resi-
dents lost their lives, or the
bomb-throwers who dynamited
a memorial recalling Lenin’s
stay in the city during his years
of exile before the Revolution.

Drawing attention to these
facts has not deterred informed
people, of course, from doing
everything to make the Olympic
games a success as a meeting
place of the world’s athletes in
peaceful competition. The Olym-
pic games, however, have point-
ed up the political reality in Mu-
nich outside the Olympic Village
and a knowledge of the facts
aids those democratic forces in
the metropolis who are working
to rid it of the fascists, diver-
sionists, hate-mongers and re-
vanchists.

concern: Mi

and rebuild their villages.
“This request was not only

follows:

-(P PROTESTS REPRESSION —

The Communist Party of Canada, in the spirit of workingclass
internationalism, shows keen concern over the ‘hardships
thrust upon labor and democratic forces in’ other countries.
The letter below, addressed to Israel's Prime Minister Golda
Meir by the CPC leader William Kashtan, expresses such

“We have learned that following the recent lifting of the
military ban, imposed since 1948, the inhabitants of the villages
of Biram and. iqrit requested that they be allowed to return

Israel but on August 7, 1972 those inhabitants who had re-
turned were forcefully and brutally evicted. i

“The Communist Party of Canada protests against your
Government's flagrant injustice and unwarranted discrimina-
tion against Israeli citizens of Arab nationality. Further, we
urge that you and your Government revise the decision not to .
allow the inhabitants of Biram and Iqrit to return their villages.”

In another letter, the Central Executive Committee of the
CPC addressed General Numeiri, the Sudanese president, as

“The Communist Party of Canada protests in the strongest
possible terms the reign of terror unleashed by your Govern-
ment in July of 1971 against the patriotic democratic forces of
Sudan, particularly against leaders and members of the trade
unions, the Communist and other democratic parties.

“Hundreds of political prisoners and detainees still remain
imprisoned, subjected to degrading and inhuman treatment
and denied the possibility of any reasonable medical care.

“In the name of freedom and democracy we demand that
your Government immediately take the necessary measures to

- unconditionally release all political prisoners and detainees
presently imprisoned in your country.”

refused by the Goverment of

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