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    As a result of a dramatic increase in radical measures against Scientologists by extremist officials in Germany, the country has been sharply criticized by US officials and by other politicians and media internationally. Yet, certain officials continue with their discrimination, out of step with the rest of the world — and alarmingly similar to the actions taken by the Nazis against the Jewish people and minority religions in the 1930s, preceding the Holocaust.

     The Church of Scientology International began a social responsibility campaign of advertisements in the New York Times to demonstrate that the statements and actions being taken by certain German politicians toward Scientologists today are a near — identical repeat of the Nazis in the 1930s.

    As the ads state, “This advertisement is the product of need rather than desire. We expose the symmetry between events in Germany today and what happened there sixty years ago. In so doing, we do not indulge in name calling. When today's behavior is reminiscent of the behavior of the Nazi era, it is not because a label has been affixed, but because the conduct has evoked the comparison. We are offering the facts for the world to judge.”