Deputy Who Justified Hitler’s Policy of Making Germany “judenrein” is Acquitted

Wolfgang Hedler, deputy in the Bonn Parliament of the rightist German Party, was today acquitted by a German court in Neumuenster of charges of inciting to anti-Semitism. At his trial, Hedler admitted that he had been a member of the Nazi Party.

Hedler’s trial followed a speech in which he said that the only oriticism of Hitler’s regime could be the methods he used in ridding Germany of the Jews, adding that other means could have been used to accomplish the same purpose. He also attacked another member of the West German Parliament for speaking in behalf of the Jews. Before the trial, American High Commissioner John J. McCloy commented that American officials were watching the trial with interest as an indication of the Germans’ attitude toward the problem.