Dr. Julius Lippert, one-time Nazi Mayor of Berlin, has been declared a “Class II Offender” by the last remaining denazification court in Hesse. The sentence carried with it a small fine and a ban on Lippert’s running for public office, holding editorial positions for five years or receiving government pensions.
Prominent in Jew-baiting circles in the early twenties, Dr. Lippert joined the Nazi Party in 1927 and worked his way up to the editorship of “Der Angriff, ” Goebbels sheet. Later, he headed the Nazi administration of Berlin and was appointed a general in the Storm Troops.
During the war he served in the occupation administration in Belgium and after the liberation he was arrested and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment as a war criminal. Two years ago he was released from a Belgian jail and immediately returned to Germany and applied for a pension as a retired Mayor of Berlin.
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