Deputy Goebbels, the Hitlerist leader in Berlin, who was fined 1.500 Marks last week for insulting the Vice-President of the Berlin Police Force, Dr. Weiss, who is a Jew, has again been fined a sum of 2,000 Marks on the same charge, and a further sum of 500 Marks for inciting one section of the population against another by publishing an antisemitic verse in his paper, the "Angriff".
A crowd of Hitlerists who were present in court when the sentence was handed down, shouted "Hail Hitler" Deputy Goebbels turning to the court asked sneeringly whether it would sentence each of the interrupters to three months’ imprisonment. The court ruled that this was contempt of court and increased the second fine by 50 Marks.
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