Hinz Liepmann, author of “Murder–Made in Germany,” now in refuge from Germany, has been arredted and will be charged with having libeled the head of a friendly foreign nation, for which the Dutch law provides a maximum penalty of four years’ imprisenment, it became known here today.
According to an interview in to day’s Het voll with Francots Pauwels, well known Dutch attorney who has been appointed to defend Liepmann, the Jewish refugee author was arrested as a result of pressure by the German government.
Liepmann is descended from two old Hamburg families of rabbis and shipwrights. He spent several months in a German concentration camp last year. His escape to Holland he descrihes in his book soon to be published in the United States. The volume is an account of the persecution of non-Nazis and stresses particularly the suffering of the Jews under the Nazi rule.
The Passage upon which the charge against Liepmann is based contains the allegation that von Hindenburg’s estate in East Prussia had received money from the Est Prussian Relief Fund and tht Hitler had been appointed chancellor by von Hindenburg on the promise that he would discontinue an investigation into the fund.
In the interview Counselor Pauwels declared that there was no danger that Liepmann would be extraditied to Germany, since he is a political refugee. M. Pauwels indicated that there was, however, some likelihood that the author would be expelled from Holland.
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