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Imprisonment for Hitlerist Caught Red-handed Smashing Windows in Jewish Shop During Reichstag Openin

January 9, 1931
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Otto Kurtz, a tailor, was sentenced to-day to 8 months’ imprisonment for participation in the Hitlerist riots which took place on October 13th., when the new Reichstag was opened. Kurtz was caught red-handed smashing the windows of a big fur store owned by a Jew named Cohn in the Leipziger strasse, one of the principal West End shopping streets in Berlin. He is the only Hitlerist who was actually caught in the act during these disturbances.

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