Prison sentences ranging from one to two years were pronounced by a German court in Kassel against four SS hooligans from Kirchhain, near Marburg, who organized and spearheaded the November, 1938 pogrom on Jews in their small North Hesse town.
Walter Biedermann, a 50-year-old clerk who was the local SS indoctrination chief, received the two-year term for “aggravated breach of the peace” and “incitement to assault.” Together with the other defendants, veteran Nazis all, he had led a beating-and-looting spree through Jewish apartments and stores.
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