EXTREME GERMAN PARTY

Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1946, Page 5

EXTREME GERMAN PARTY

X.OHDOH, April 7. British Intelligence officers are keep ing under elose observation the extremt Right Wing Gejrrqan Reconstructio:. Party, which aims at restoration of th. mpnarehy, says Reuter's corresponden. at Herford. A political intelligence re port describes the party as the most vigorous and most outspoken Rign. Wihg mpvemept which has emerged 11. the British Zone sjnce the collapse 0Nazisip. The leaders are the anti ^emitjc ReinhQld Wulle, who was re leased by Himmler from a concentra tion qamp in 1942, and an industrialist Joachim von Austau, who admits mexn bersliip of the Nazi Party. The repori says the Party 's applications for recog ntion will he a test case for British policy in Germany. Severe penalties, including even the death penalty, may he imposed for the breach of an ordinance which the Con troj CommissiQn for Germany haissued, fprhidding from April 15 forme. members pf the Wehrmacht or Lermai civiliaps from wearing any military uir fprm, head-dress, badges or any mili tary ingignia. The prohibition of tht wearipig of uniforms and insignia by German civilians has so far not beer strictly enforced, because of the diih culty of dyeing thousands of army uni forms, which are many discharged servicemen's only clothjng. . "