Calumnies Against Jews, Not Jewish Religion, is Basis of Verdict (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Four anti-Semitic agitators who asserted in their publication that ritual murder is a command of the Talmud and is being practiced today were acquitted of charges brought against them by representatives of the Jewish community that they had offended the Jewish religion.
Those acquitted were Stuerner, the publisher of the paper, Streicher, a member of the Bavarian Diet, and city councillor Holz and Dietrich, members of the editorial staff.
The acquittal was ordered by the Nurenberg court on the ground that the writers of the articles did not mean the Jewish religion but the Jewish people. The verdict called forth criticism in German Democratic circles.
The Nurenberg court previously acquitted the same agitators when Steurner’s paper published articles in which it was alleged that the Jewish soldiers in the German army during the war were but “swine keepers.” At that time the court based its acquittal on the ground that it could not be established who was the author of the article.
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