What action is the Government going to take in this matter, Deputy Dr. Hamburger, a Socialist member of the Prussian Parliament, asked to-day in drawing the attention of the Minister of Justice in the House to a case which came up recently before the Listrict Court at Glatz, with Judge Lehmann presiding.
A Hitlerist Town Councillor named Koehler had while acting as Chairman of a Hitlerist public meeting declared that a local Jewish merchant named Ellguther had paid 200 Marks to get a mob to break up the meeting. The Court found that Koehler’s allegation was a pure invention and that Ellguther, who was entirely innocent of the charge, had in consequence suffered both moral and material damage, and yet it decided that Koehler was to be acquitted, “because he had acted in the public interest as the leader of the Glarz local group of the Hitlerist Party, which fights against all that is Jewish, and felt, therefore, that it was his duty by all means to convince his Party members that it is essential to conduct an anti-Jewish campaign”.
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