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Hamburg Court Sentences German to Nine Months for Anti-semitism

January 20, 1960
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A 38-year-old truck driver was sentenced here to nine months in jail for anti-Semitism. He was convicted of publicly stating that “it is good that the Jewish question is being rolled up again. I still have two sharp knives at home.”

Dr. Heinrich Luebke, President of the West German Federal Republic, today received an appeal from the Council of Jews from Germany now in England, urging him an insist that the young generation of Germans should be taught that “the swastika is the sign of infamy. “

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