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...founders of the SRP were Fritz Dorls--former Nazi Gauleiter--Gerhard Kruger, and Count Wolf Von Westorp, both fairly prominent Nazis. These men were the brains of the party, but the popular leader, the man often mistaken for the head of the party, was General Otto-Ernst Remer. Remer's claim to popularity was his part in crushing the July 20th, 1944 plot by high German officers to assassinate Hitler, take over the government, and seek peace. Remer, then in charge of the Berlin SS troops, refused to turn the city over to the plotters, and after speaking over...
Like weeds in the rubble, a cluster of neo-Nazi parties sprouted in postwar Germany. The only one to cause any serious worry among U.S. officials was the Socialist Reich party (SRP), which last year polled 360,000 votes in Lower Saxony. Its mouthpiece was a cut-rate Goebbels, former Major General Otto Ernst Remer, who peddled the line that Germany must return to the "good things" in Naziism. Last November, the West German government jailed Remer, asked the federal constitutional court to outlaw the party...
Last week the SRP announced that it would "voluntarily" dissolve itself. Secretary General Fritz Heller tried hard to make out that the move was only a strategic withdrawal-necessary to protect party members from Communist agents, who were supposedly threatening them. (In the past, the Reds and the neo-Nazis have been cheek by jowl.) But most Germans were convinced that the SRP was trying to dodge being outlawed, would try to continue to spread its poison underground...
...Renaissance palace at Karlsruhe, seat of West Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party suffered a major legal setback. For two weeks, while the government attacked as unconstitutional the antiSemitic, Hitler-venerating SRP (TIME, May 21, 1951), the defendants-like Communists on trial in the U.S.-were alternately defiantly silent or deliberately long-winded, smirked, refused to testify, and contemptuously egged on demonstrators outside the court. Last week, as the government concluded its case, Court President Dokter Hermann Höpker-Aschoff made an announcement: pending the court's decision (not expected before fall...