The operator of a Nazi bookstore, that has been open on Detroit’s west side since Dec. 17, has until Saturday to get out of the building or face eviction. Detroit Common Pleas Court Judge Henry J. Szymanski ordered the stare vacated last Wednesday after the building’s landlord, Eddy S. Bullock Jr., said he had leased the store for a printing operation.
William Russell, spokesman for the Nazi bookstore, defended himself, saying no Detroit lawyer would defend a Nazi. He admitted his printing business had no name, that he had not applied for a zoning variance to operate a printing business, and that the business had no telephone, never advertised, never charged sales tax and never charged for the three printing jobs it had.
Bullock testified that Russell never told him the store would be run by the Nazis. The owner of a neighboring beauty salon, also rented by Bullock, said she had lost business because of the numerous demonstrations held to protest the Nazi bookstore. Russell said later he had no plans to appeal and had not decided whether to open another bookstore elsewhere in the city. Jewish and non-Jewish organizations representing a cross-section of the city’s population have protested the presence of the Nazi bookstore and have demanded that it be closed down.
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