The press here is much concerned about the action of the Breslau District Court in remitting a fine of 300 Marks imposed by the lower court on Fritz Waldman, a Hitlerist agitator, in finding him guilty of conducting a fierce antisemitic agitation. The District Court quashed the sentence, deciding that Waldman was not guilty, because he was only acting according to the teachings of Hitler and furthermore was not fighting with physical weapons but with the weapons of the mind.
The Democratic press demands that the Minister of Justice should intervene, asserting that the law courts in Silesia are exceptionally lenient to Hitlerists, but punish very severely people brought before them who belong to the political parties of the Left.
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