A Jewish war veteran who won distinction on the battlefield and whose three brothers were killed fighting for Germany in the World War was today under sentence by a Leipzig court to serve one year in jail for “Rassenschande,” or race defilement. He had refused to give up his friendship with an “Aryan” working woman whom he had known since 1932.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
