GERMANY: Ragtag Reminders

For a month Germans had been fretting over what they called exaggerated U.S. and British reports of resurgent Naziism in West Germany. Last week their own government dispatched police into Hamburg and Bremen to round up key men in a blatantly Nazi movement called the German Free Corps.

Eleven were arrested and a twelfth warrant was issued for one already in custody—Dr. Gustav Scheel, former Nazi Gauleiter for Salzburg, who was one of seven ex-Nazi bigwigs jailed by the British last month on charges of "plotting to regain power" in West Germany. Among...

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