A suggestion that the opening in Germany of the trial of Philip Auerbach on a Jewish holiday might raise a matter of principle which should be brought before the U.N. Human Rights Commission was made at a meeting here of the executive of the Agudas Israel World Organization by H.A. Goodman, world Agudah leader.
He said that this would have to be considered if Germany’s basic law was proven not to protect religious rights in Germany. This matter is presently before the Federal Constitutional Court in Bonn, at the request of Auerbach’s attorney.
While refraining from voicing any views on the trial itself, Mr. Goodman said the democratic world would deplore the anti-Semitic atmosphere of the proceedings and the Nazi-like reports of the trial appearing in the German press.
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