“So far,” thundered the Social Democrat deputy, As a one-time prominent Nazi—unlike so many other began it appeal to voters it offered something more than “they have not put on any brown shirts.” He glanced generals in the German high command, Remer was, and campaign oratory. It had its own auxiliary army known meaningfully at the group of 16 deputies who sat quietly, remains, a fanatically devoted follower of —he as the Reichsfront, able to mobilize several thousand arms-folded, at the opening session of the is barred by denazification law from attaining political “security guards.” Most of these uniformed thugs were Diet. “I hope they are not going to either, because if office. Possibly because of this restriction the nominal graduates from Remer’s secret group. The militant arro- they do, we in this House will teach them the ways of head of the is Dr. Fritz Doris, a gance of the Reichsfront got so out of hand that the Bonn reason and order.” member of the Bundestag at Bonn. But Remer—who is government was forced to slap it down with an emphatic not prevented by the rules from engaging in political order to disband. The statement was meant as a challenge. It was more activity—is the party’s “strongman.” A gaunt six-footer impressive, however, as an open acknowledgment of Remer financed his Reichsfront through underground with a hawk-like countenance he is the current idol of the anxious fears felt by western ’s federal Nazi channels. Millions of marks which the Nazis de- both those malcontent Germans and unreconstructed Nazis government and Allied occupation officials at the unex- posited in banks in Switzerland and who yearn for a return to the glories of the late 1930’5. Lichtenstein, pected of events. To them—and to the rest of the turn Sweden —a good part of the funds is convertible to U. S. world—the presence of the 16 silent deputies was a makes no of his contempt for the Bonn Remer secret dollars —are controlled by former Hitler agents. They—- bitter symbol of nazism’s bold return to the political government which he describes as “our degenerate de- together opportunistic arena. mocracy.” In his public appearances—always dressed in with some German businessmen —see to it that the Remer organization Hadn’t the federal government formally condemned the traditional jackboots and surrounded by a coterie of is well oiled this Socialist Reich Party and its leadership as “neo- bodyguards—he holds himself forth as “a soldier who with money. Remer is also engaged in the illegal im- Nazi”? fought to the end.” Large crowds of young people come portation of Der Weg, a Nazi propaganda magazine pub- to hear him castigate the Bonn administrators as “a lished in the Argentine by two former Nazi hirelings. Whatever the cause of 400,000 Germans responding government of puppets” which, he tells listeners, exists “Ja” to a Nazi revival —some experts point to widespread without a shred of German legality. Der Weg is banned by occupation authorities. Never- unemployment, inflation and the heavy number of Ger- poor theless, about 120,000 copies are regularly delivered, then man refugees, all of which have been an economic strain By demagogic standards Remer is a orator. But by distributed by Remer’s followers. to the area—old-time German democrats cannot forget this failing is compensated for the tumult and the trappings in the early Nazi days before 1933, Hitler’s strongest which enliven his speeches. The banners and How far will Remer go? The answer depends a great Saxony. the propaganda still retain their hypnotic appeal. And political support came from this same Lower deal on what action the Adenauer government takes to “Primarily,” one American correspondent, “the the propaganda is the same: a return to totalitarian wrote suppress his fanatical nationalism—taking care not to Socialist Reich Party seems to have taken roots because rule by the “elite flO per cent of the nation” and there hollow make a “martyr” of Many of the fertile quality of the Lower Saxony political soil will be prosperity for all. Shopworn and as it him. Germans are contemp- a Remer; which has sprouted more political weeds than even sounds, it has nostalgic appeal for the malcontents and tuous of they dismiss him as “a poor copy” of Bavaria.” opportunists eager to escape the present hardship of his idol Hitler. every day life and the penalties of having lost a war of support Other Remer detractors point to the It is a fact worth noting that the of the conquest. occasional de- Socialist Reich Party did not come from German refu- fections in the ranks of the Socialist Reich Party as in German gees who have fled from the East, as some observers be- In one respect Remer is starting off poli- evidence that the “new fuehrer” is strictly a second- lieved. The votes were those of tradesmen and farmers, tics the same way Hitler did; a political martyr sentenced rater, unable to control his own following. Yet all these well-fed and well-housed, not suffering much from the to jail. He was once convicted to four months’ im- rebuffs are heavily outweighed by the bloc of 400,000 economic woes that exist in most of western Germany. prisonment for spreading contempt for Chancellor Ade- votes which has made Remer a power in Lower Saxony. nauer and the Bonn government. Even those who regard him as a weak carbon of Hitler out must, nonetheless warn Apolitical party to resell the fuehrerprinzip Remer was released on December 22, 1945. After that he should not be underestimated. of necessity, exhibit a potential fuehrer. In the case of that he steered clear of political activity for the next Editorialized one German newspaper: “A Remer who, himself in following the footsteps of Nazidom, the Socialist Reich Party the man who holds 14 months—or until he satisfied that he could open in shamelessly rides was roughshod readiness to assume the role of Hitler’s successor is a up without too much hindrance from American or Brit- over the dead bodies and the ruins bequested former army officer, Remer, by the Nazis, ought, to 39 year-old Otto Ernst ish authorities. Then, in Munich on Much 1, 1947, he wherever he appears, be received recognition is as befits a second Hitler.” whose principal claim to historical that created a Nazi revival movement which he called “Ger- the he was the one largely responsible for exposing man Community.” And it was only a few years ago when General Clay, military’s bomb plot against Hitler in July, 1944. For retiring as American Military Governor of Germany, When the Socialist Reich Party—organized two years this act of loyalty, a grateful Adolf promoted him to the emphatically told us: “Nazism is completely dead.” ago by Remer and a group of eight other neo-Nazis— rank of major-general. —The ADL Bulletin.

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