A court today fined Mawrits Dekker, famous Dutch Jewish author, 100 guilders (about $55) or 50 days in prison for insulting Chancellor Hitler in a pamphlet entitled “Hitler–An Attempt to Explain.” Netherlands law forbids insulting the head of a friendly nation.
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