A German police officer killed a Jew caught visiting his divorced “Aryan” wife in her flat in Spandau, a suburb of Barlin, the Berlin correspondent of the newspaper Social Demokraten reported today.
The police were informed Saturday night that the Jew was visiting the flat and an officer was immediately sent out to investigate this suspected “racial offense,” it was said. When the officer arrived at the flat the Jew hid on the balcony. The officer shot him when he allegedly resisted arrest and the Jew fall dead to the street. His divorced wife was arrested because she had denied that he was in the flat.
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