"Fascists out, fascists out!" yelled hecklers. But the speaker of the German Reich Party meeting in Hamburg last week went right on with his hoarse oratory. "It is not historical," he cried, "to accuse the Germans of starting the war against Poland in 1939." Wrote Die Zeit's reporter: "The man next to me covered his face with his hands and said, 'It can't be true.' "
It was not true, but the outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents after the Christmas smearing of swastikas on the Cologne synagogue jolted West Germany into taking a new and disgusted look at the neo-Nazi...
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