George Englemann, who headed a German office in Poland during the war for sale of confiscated Jewish property was sentenced by the Frankfurt criminal court to five years’ imprisonment for fomenting anti-Jewish disturbances in Eschwege, a town near here.
Englemann, now a merchant in Eschwege, declared publicly of the Jews that “too few of the race were gassed” in the Nazi death chambers during the war. The court accepted the public prosecutor’s statement that a fine would be inadequate punishment because “the seriousness of these matters must not be under-rated.” He stressed that Englemann had shown no signs of regret.
Englemann is also accused by the Polish Government of inhuman treatment of Jews and Poles while he was a Nazi official. The attorney for the Union of Jewish Communities attended the trial as a “friend of the court.”
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