A Polish court today sentenced 33 Germans belonging to a secret organization in Upper Silesia to prison terms ranging from eight months to two and one-half years, on charges of organizing a Nazi youth movement among the German minority in Poland, the Havas News Agency reported.
The German group, sentenced at Kattowice, is known as the “Wanderbund, It had been holding illegal meetings and was understood to have been secretly organizing a Nazi organization modeled along the lines of the Storm Troop sections in the Reich. The Upper Silesia section of Poland is part of territory formerly belonging to Germany.
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