A slander complaint filed with the Brunswick court by the Central Council of Jews in Germany against Herr Bothmer, a leader of the Socialist Reich Party, who called on audiences to “fight world Jewry which is responsible for all the unrest in the world,” was dismissed by the court today.
The court, in its verdict, held that a public appeal to fight world Jewry does not in itself constitute an insult; world Jewry is not an “offendable” community; Bothmer’s speech had not been directed against the complainant, the Central Council; Bothmer did not say he intended to fight world Jewry with the means of the Third Reich and, finally, Bothmer had not demanded the use of force and violence in the fight against the Jews.
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