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Article: E. Germany Ran Antisemitic Campaign in West in '60s
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- The Washington Post
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- February 28, 1993
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Spies for Communist East Germany staged antisemitic attacks in
West Germany in the 1960s to foment internal unrest in West Germany
and discredit Bonn among its Western allies, according to documents
from the archives of the East German Stasi secret police.
Records of the Stasi and East Germany's Politburo reveal that the
Communist government used its agents in the West to enlist - often
unwittingly - Western leftist groups, Jews, intellectuals and
vestigial Nazi sympathizers in a campaign designed to persuade
Washington, London and other Western power centers that West Germany
remained a hotbed of racism and revanchism.
In 1961, as the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was
getting ...