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Among the most noisome of the "bad Germans" is stocky, pushing Wolfgang He.dl.er, 50, an early Nazi, now a formally denazified member of Bonn's Bundestag. Hedler's denazification is skin-deep. A reactionary Deutsche Partei man, he believes that Hitler's defeat was no failure of fascism; it sprang from the "treason and sabotage of the resistance movement." Last November in Einfeld Hedler boldly harangued a crowd of refugees, disgruntled farmers, ex-officers and soldiers...
...Deutsche Partei promptly expelled Hedler, the Bundestag lifted his parliamentary immunity. Early this month, Hedler was haled into Neumünster court to answer charges of defamation of the Jews, incitement to class hatred, libel of Knoeringen, Steltzer and Schumacher. Of the three judges, two were ex-Nazis. Last week they found Hedler legally blameless...
...disgrace to the German people." In Kiel, the trade unions stopped work for 90 minutes in protest. The Christian Democrat press service warned: "The Weimar Republic collapsed because of [similar] tolerance toward its known enemies." U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy had a stinging comment: "I doubt, that [Hedler] can or will ever be acquitted morally by public opinion...
...Bonn government announced that it would tighten the Civil Code to deter future Hedlers. An official move got under way to try Hedler again in a denazification court. "Good Germans" like Knoeringen and Inge Scholl would have to do the rest...
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