Twenty-five Germans charged with responsibility for pogroms which cook place against the Jewish community of Wunsiedel, in Bavaria, on tonight of Nov. 10, 1936, were acquitted by the president of the court–Dr. Josef Ring–on the grounds that they were not “conscious of the illegality of their action.” The prosecution immediately filed an appeal against the decision.
Walter Kanne, former Gestapo official who supervised Gestapo headquarters in Braunschweig during the war, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment on charges of murdering a German Jew. The trial was conducted in a Gorman court in Hamburg.
Otto Heer, district chief of the Nazi Party, was sentenced to a five-year prison term after being found guilty of charges of burning down the synagogue in the town of Kitzingen, in Bavanta. Two co-defendants of Heer’s received sentences of two-and-a.-half years while four others were acquitted.
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