The Baden-Wurttemberg Ministry of Justice denied today, in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, that Ludwig Zind, the Offenburg school teacher sentenced for anti-Semitic remarks, had been aided by an underground organization in his flight last October to Cairo.
A spokesman for the Ministry said that Zind had used the passport of his brother-in-law, Helmuth Vollmer, who died last September in Offenburg. Zind’s wife and sister-in-law were sentenced to ten weeks’ imprisonment each on charges of aiding the teacher to escape, but the sentences later were commuted.
The Ministry spokesman said that an investigation by the Ministry into Zind’s successful flight from justice did not reveal any conditions calling for disciplinary action against Dr. Rudi Meyer, the Offenburg prosecutor. Dr. Meyer had been charged with negligence for not keeping Zind under police surveillance while the teacher’s appeal was pending before the Federal Supreme Court.
Zind had been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for declaring publicly that “not enough Jews had been gassed, ” #e was sentenced April 11 for libel and defamation of the dead after a jury had found him guilty of insulting Kurt Lieser. a merchant of half-Jewish descent.
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