Word: naumann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crimes system was made to seem particularly unjust in German eyes last week by the climax of the case of notorious Nazi War Propagandist Werner Naumann. Onetime righthand man to Goebbels, Naumann went underground in 1945 and stayed there through the bitter de-Nazification period, emerging only when new laws enabled him to escape being labeled a major offender. An unrepenting Hitlerite, he was soon active in neo-Nazi circles. Arrested by the British in 1953 for "endangering the occupation," he was deprived of the right to make public speeches, write for the press, broadcast or hold public office...
...seedy, 57-year-old fascist had little new to offer his disciples. His old British Union of Fascism was masked under a new name, the European Union Movement. It had some new heroes: West Ger many's disenfranchised neo-Nazi Werner Naumann and U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy ("the only leader in America today showing strength, character and direction"), but the 800 screaming followers who gathered in the school auditorium to greet Mosley might have been waiting there ever since the late 1930s. There were the same blond bully boys, the same zoot-suited spivs, the same middle-aged women...
Last January the British arrested Naumann and six associates, three of them ex-Gauleiter, on charges of conspiracy. Germans hissed and booed, but after a close look at the evidence, Bonn's Minister of Justice agreed that the danger was "acute." Naumann went to jail, but later was freed without trial...
Last week Naumann addressed a beer-hall rally in Hanover that was grimly reminiscent of early Nazi fracases. Local officials in Westphalia tried to get him banned from the ballot but the publicity would probably do him more good than harm. The betting was that his DRP would win several seats...
...More 1933s. German democracy, a sensitive plant at best, was not yet in mortal danger from evil men like Naumann. It might never be-yet a world that had ignored the doings in a Munich beer cellar in the '205 was not anxious to be duped again. The rise of neo-Naziism and the echoes it was getting from veterans, refugees, chauvinists, and a few big businessmen, served as a warning to the West: that in seeking German arms to solve the "Russian problem," it risks reviving the old "German problem...