The Socialist fraction in the Prussian Diet today demanded that disciplinary measures be taken against fourteen officials of the Police Department who supplied the Nazi press with material against Dr. Bernhard Weiss, Jewish vice-president of the Berlin Police Department, until martial law was declared.
The Socialists charged that the information against Dr. Weiss was supplied by the police officials as part of an anti-Semitic plot.
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