March 1981 - March 24, 1981 (Tuesday)

March 24, 1981 (Tuesday)

• The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) carried out the largest crusade against Nazis since that nation's founding in 1949, raiding hundreds of homes of suspected Neo-Nazi members and confiscating party literature and propaganda, much of it written by Ernst Zündel. "Neo-Nazi Propaganda Is Seized in West Germany", New York Times, March 25, 1981; Alan T. Davies, Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992) p265;