Thirty former Nazi publishers rushed back into the newspaper business during the first two weeks of August before the United States military authorities ended the licensing system, it was revealed today in a report issued by U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy. The report confirmed that the publisher of the notorious sheet “Der Stuermer,” Max Willmy, is again in the newspaper business.
In Stuttgart yesterday, a German criminal court sentenced Ferdinand Goehler, a former inspector in a ghetto in Poland, to life imprisonment for participating in the extermination of Jews, Reuters reported.
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