The highest Hamburg court has ruled that the defendant in a current case may not repeat dubious allegations as to the nature of the World War II Warsaw Ghetto in the course of his defense. The ruling overturned a decision by lower court judges that allowed rightwing lawyer Juergen Rieger to assert repeatedly that Jews were confined to the Warsaw Ghetto only to prevent the spread of a deadly disease.
Several charges are pending against Rieger. He first made his remarks on the Warsaw Ghetto last November when he appeared in court as a witness for the defense in the trial of Arpad Wigand, the former SS police chief in Warsaw. Wigand was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
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