The end of the ritual murder agitation, carried on by German anti-Semitic newspapers in connection with the murder of a Christian boy in Manau, Bavaria, as within sight when the Bamberg court took official action today to “give the lie” to the barbaric libel.
The court published an official statement setting forth the facts and emphatically denouncing the ritual murder agitation carried on by the National Socialists in connection with the discovery of the body of a boy named Karl Kessler, who had been murdered in the woods near Manau.
In contrast to the unfounded assertions in the anti-Semitic press which carried headlines such as “Blond Boy Murdered, Passover Blood Drawn,” the court officially declared that it has established that there are no signs on the body that the was any artificial bleeding, that there was no mark of slaughter, and that there is no basis whatsoever for any assumption or suspicion that a “ritual murder” had been perpetrated.
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