(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The anti-Semitic students at the Hanover Technical College who organized the course against Professor Theodor Lessing will not be prosecuted, according to the official statement issued by the flan over authorities.
This announcement caused great indignation in the liberal German press which declares that this act indicates the weakness of the Prussian authorities. “Henceforth warfare against Jews can be continued with relative impunity,” the papers state.
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