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By TOM McEWEN

Last week a horror cartoon by Norris of the Vancouver Sun told its own story. It showed a pair of foul hands lifting a rock and a myriad of swastika disease-laden

vermin emerging from its depth. Contrary to Norris’ genius aor EuRRePNale captions

this particular cartoon was

The rock should. have been labelled “West .Germany, the evil hands that of resurgent nazism, the disease-laden swas- tika the poison of anti-Semit- ism. A new bid by West Ger- man nazism to re-open the death ovens.

Last week too, amidst the growing protest against acts committed and_ threatened against Jewish people and in- stitutions by a _ revanchist nazism. Herr Henrich Luebke, the new president of West Germany, is featured as being “outraged” by these acis —

which originate and spread from his country. Remembering that Herr

Luebke was chief nazi admin- istrator of Berlin during the Hitler regime, and under whose Brown Shirt authority countless thousands of. Jewish people, men. women and chil- dren were outraged, beaten, imprisoned and exterminated because they were Jews, we need not be too impressed with Herr Luebke’s “outrage” . . at a business in which he prov- ed himself, and to Hitler’s sat- isfaction, a master anti-Semite.

Those Who may desire to re- read a documentary on the ex- termination of the Jewish peo- ple in Berlin or elsewhere dur- ing the Hitler Reich may re- fer to The Yellow Spot. This book of horror has a foreword by the Very Reverend Herbert Dunelm, then Bishop of Dur- ham. It may be added in pass- ing that the worthy bishop made it the responsibility of other civilized states to extir- pate this racist nazi horror and all the Leubkes, Strassers, Oberlaenders, Streichers and others who were its top disease carriers.

At the Potsdam and prev- ious conferences of the Big

silent.

Four, these allied leaders said, “We shall extirpate the evils of nazism. root and branch.” In the Nuremberg trials of the nazi war criminals for crimes unequalled in the annals of human history, the same pledge was the logic that flow- ed from the nazi crime record.

How has Western imperial- ism, and first and foremost ag- gressive U.S. imperialism car- ried _out _this _"extirpation” pledge?

By launching the cold war while Hitler death ovens were still warm. By establishing the Bonn Adenauer govern- ment, a government in which all powers, executive, admin- istrative, judicial, military, police, and other government- al services have been placed in the hands of ex-nazi war criminals; war criminals re- leased from prison, their Nu- remberg sentences commuted by U.S. and British direction, in order to. better stoke the

.|fires of coldwar against the

USSR and the adjacent coun- tries of socialism.

If space permitted it could be shown that every minister in the government of West Germany had a criminal naziJ record from the Hitler regime; that over 800 judges in the West German judiciary were nazi officials of one sort or another; that nazi generals under Hitler are now the top brass in the new West German Wehrmacht, trained and armed for nuclear warfare by US. and Western imperialism. Even Kurt Myer. the killer of defenceless Canadian prison- ers of war, is playing a leading role in the West German re- vanchist military machine.

Nor is that all. Big German

war- criminals like ~ Alfred

Krupp of the giant Krupp arm-

ament cartel of steel, coal and death, has been. restored to pre-eminence in West Ger- many—the same merchant of death Krupp who is now a pariner in the Wenner-Gren - B.C. Electric monopoly %eek-

ing to grab B.C.’s vast hydro.

and mineral resources.

In their hectic: preparations for a new revanchist war, aid- ed and abetted by Western im- perialism, the bid for neo-nazi West German “respectability” has seen blood money paid to certain Jewish leaders as “compensation” for the exter- mination of six million of their fellow Jews in Hitler’s death ovens and_ concentration camps. And worse, seen the young state of Israel under the Ben Gurion government, also a party to the rearming of West Germany. In such cir- cumstances the nazi war crim- inals in West Germany can pretend to be “outraged” at racist anti-Semitic violence — even as they work to promote it, at home and abroad.

Thus the current spate of anti-Semitism in West Ger- many and beyond should occa- sion no “surprise,” no should it be ascribed to ‘‘crackpots,’’ “racist elements’ or “hooli- gans’” of one sort or another. Hooligans they are without doubt, but hooligans with a purpose — to inspire racist hatred and violence as a-pre- lude to a new nuclear ‘Der Tag’ — with the approval of others sitting in high places in Washington, London.. Paris, and elsewhere.

One more facet in this sorry tale of sacred covenants cynic- ally and ruthlessly destroyed by Western imperialism —the reaction of many Jewish lead-

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ace of anti-Semitism. For some it becomes a means of cheap publicity, for others the signal to draw back into their social shell and urge that “nothing be said about it, just ignore it and it will pass,” etc.

Such arguments might have some semblance of validity if it were only an_isolated case, although we would doubt even that excuse. Race haired, as in this nazi hate campaign em- anating from West Germany, is a threat to world peace, and the fate of a whole minority people in West Germany and elsewhere. Any attack upon a single Jewish person or any institution of the Jewish peo- ple in this or any other coun- try, is an attack upon the dig- nity and peace of civilized man, Jew and Gentile alike.

That is why they too, to- gether with all decent hum- anity, must stand firm against

ers to this resurgent nazi men-

resurgent nazism with its rac- jst insanity, lest it engul® all mankind in a new death-oven holocaust. (Even as-this is be- ing written Konrad Adenauer is already working overtime

to sabotage a successful sum- —

mit meeting, and boasting that in the nuclear war he and his neo-nazi government = strives for “there will be nothing left of the Soviet Union.’’)

The fight against anti-Sem- itism, anti-Jewish violence and

similar manifestations of rac-

ial hatreds, is basically the sacred and all-important fight for world peace and disarma- ment — and first and foremost the disarming of the nazi war criminals now ruling in West Germany, flaunting their ar- rogance and their foul swas- tikas, setting the stage for new death Oven atrocities, and, as in the Hitler era, making the

Jewish peoPles their first vic- tims. —

current neo-nazi displays,”

Pothorn is the Marine Work-

ers Union delegate who was rounded applauded at the last meeting of Vancouver Labor Council for his stirring de- |nunciation of the anti-Semitic outrages. Of German descent, he has een active in anti-nazi struggles for some 30 years or more. : -“When anyone speaks of vigilantes, my experience in life tends to made me suspic- ious of the growth of secret societies, lynch law, bigotry, etc.,” Pothorn continued.

“T am not impressed when Dr. B.-W. Hoeter, Vancouver editor of the German-Canadian weekly Der Nordwestern arid spokesman, apparently, for the Vancouver Alpen Club, advo- cated an organization of ‘vigi- lantes’ to clean up neo-nazism and: its swastika painters.

“Here, in my opinion, is a better idea.

"Only a few years ago ‘any-

‘Vigilance needed, but not vigilantes -Pothorn

“One may sympathize with the desire of German immigrants in Canada to dissociate themselves from the

Adolph Pothorn told the

Pacific Tribuné this week. “However, while vigilance is a. good thing, vigilantes are birds of a different feather.”

one could observe several of the newly-arrived immigrants from Germany strutting around Vancouver sireeis in their jackboois

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and black 4 breeches of the S.S. Isn’t it —

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possible that a few—just afew

—of these people got into the Alpen Club? If so, shouldn’t it be fairly easy to locate them?

western. For instance,

ies, including the Sudetenland.

“Tt would be well if Dr. Hoeter would introduce action of the type suggested above, otherwise some joker might

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“Secondly, it would be well — if Dr. Hoeter would try to in- — fluence the policy of Der Nord- — in its issue of December 3, 1959 the — leading article is a real revan- chist whipper-upper, appealing — to Germans not to abandon ~ hope of regaining lost territor- —

come along with the idea that —