A demand for the execution of all the Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg was made by Julius Meyer, a member of the executive of the Jewish Community Council here, before the first meeting of Jews held in a Berlin synagogue since the war.
“No one is better qualified to comment than we are,” he declared. “They are all guilty and we demand the hangman’s rope for all of them.” The meeting was told that of the 186,000 Jews living in Berlin in 1939, there remain only 7,330, or one in 25. Only four synagogues are left out of the 50 which existed here in 1939.
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