A were of protest has swept Bavaria on the heels of yesterday’s acquittal by a German comet of the former Gestapo chief of Munich, Col. Oswald Schaefer, and his assistant, Pichard Leblmechner. The prosecutor has announced that he is collecting material for a new trial.
The labor unions in this city have called a protest meeting for tomorrow and threaten further strihes if the court’s decision is permitted to stand. The Bavarian legislature, after hearing Bavarian Justice Minister Joseph Mueller denounce the verdict, adopted a resolntion placing itself on record as opposed to the verdict in “the name of humanity.”
Dr. Philip Auerbach, Bavariam Commissioner for Persecutees, telegraphed American High Commissioner John J. McCloy, asking that the trial verdict be set aside. Organizations representing racial persecutees and other victims of the Nazis have denounced the court’s action as an aid to the neo-Mazi movement.
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