The High Court today confirmed short prison sentences passed on three Nazi editors last Sept. 8 for defaming the Jewish religion and raised the sentences of two others. The term of Waldemar Jensen, editor of the Stormen, was raised by twenty days, and that of Aage Andersen, leader of the Danish Nazis, from 60 to 80 days. The court confirmed sentences of 40 days on Lemvigh Mueller, “independent” anti-Semite; 80 days on N. Olsen, editor of the National Sozialistischen Monatshefte, and 20 days on N. Moeller.
As the journalists’ re-trial began yesterday, counsel for the defendants contended that the President of the Court was not qualified to sit on the ground that his grandmother was Jewish.
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