Kattermann, the editor of the “Badische-Zeitung,” organ of the anti-Semitic “Stahlhelm” organization, was sentenced by a court to either pay a fine or spend thirty days in jail, as a result of the suit brought against him by the Berlin “Vorwaerts.”
An article had appeared in his paper which stated that Jacob Goldschmidt German-Jewish banker, was subventioning Socialist papers like the “Vorwaerts” and the “Volksfreund.” In the court in Karlsruhe, Herr Goldschmidt showed that he never subventioned the Socialist papers, but that his bank had loaned the “Vorwaerts” printing business 800,000 marks at the normal rate of interest, and that that was a transaction of which he didn’t even know at the time it was made.
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