The former editor and publisher of “Die Anklage,” one of the most viciously anti-Semitic periodicals appearing in West Germany, has been sentenced to fines of the equivalent of $1,200 and $700 for insulting Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in the bi-weekly. However, the court refused to go along with the prosecution’s plea for prison sentences and a five-year prohibition on their journalistic activities.
The two men are Karl Ludwig Streider, 62-year-old editor, and Robert Kremer, publisher of “Die Anklage.” Streider testified that he had set up the Hamburg “Association of Denazification Sufferers”–former active Nazis who were punished by denazification courts–under the aegis of Prof. H. Oberlaender, currently Minister of Refugees in Chancellor Adenauer’s cabinet.
Wolfgang Sarg, head of the German section of the anti-Jewish “Nation form” fascist movement, has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment for conspiracy, libel and fraud. Sarg, who is only 30, admitted during the two-week trial that, together with other leading neo-Nazis in Northwest Germany, he had signed a manifesto pledging “unconditional loyalty to National Socialism.” His apartment was decorated with a Hitler portrait flanked by two Hitler Youth daggers.
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