Hugh Wilson Cowie, 35, who was court-martialled in 1945 for having voluntarily aided the Germans while he was a prisoner of war, was sentenced in Manchester Assizes to three years imprisonment for demanding money under threats from a Jewish businessman.
The prosecution proved that Cowie had told Bernard Greenfield he was investigating Jewish businesses for the “Aryan League” but would drop his investigation of Greenfield’s business for 125 pounds ($350). The information he was collecting. on Jewish businesses, Cowie further said, was to be included in an anti-Semitic pamphlet.
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