Franz von Bebenburg, publisher of the anti-clerical and anti-Jewish monthly, Der Quell, and son-in-law of Matilda Ludendorff, widow of one of Hitler’s first followers, was sentenced here of libeling two West Berlin Jewish leaders. However, the sentence was suspended for three years.
The anti-Semitic publisher was sentenced by a Munich court to two months in prison and ordered to pay $357 to a children’s fund for publication of an article about Heinz Galinski, leader of the West Berlin Jewish community, and Berlin Senator Joachim Lipschitz. The article alleged that the two men had been “tyrannizing” the people of Berlin and that “The Jews are getting the best homes and businesses” in the city. A lower court had acquitted the publishers last month.
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