The trial of Reinfried Freuneck, a German male nurse charged with having publicly declared that “all the Jews should be exterminated” will resume tomorrow in Berchtesgaden when the chief witness against him will testify from a sanitarium bed in that town.
The trial opened here with the prosecutor charging that Freuneck had violated the law against spreading racial hatred when he called for the extermination of Jews and offered to “volunteer to give poison injections to all surviving Jews. ” Co-complainants against Freuneck are two members of the Weiden Jewish community.
A committee of former prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp protested today that two of the witnesses who appeared at the trial of former Sachsenhausen camp guards Gustave Sorge and Wilhelm Schubert were themselves implicated in the killing of numerous prisoners.
They named witness Fritz Kornemi, chief of police in Cologne, as a former investigator for the Chief of the SS Security Section who organized a conspiracy against the prisoners in the camp, and shot 27 of them including three members of the Reichstag. The second witness, Cologne policeman Kurt Erdman, was identified as chief of the political section at Sachsenhausen who assisted in the executions ordered by Kornemi.
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