After intermittent proceedings that dragged on for two years, the Wuerzburg Criminal Court has dropped all charges against three local Nazi leaders who had been instrumental in organizing and carrying out the pogroms of November 1938.
Although many Wuerzburg Jews who now live in the United States had sent depositions about the guilt of the defendants, including former Wuerzburg Nazi chieftain Georg Huempfner and former Nazi Party business manager Leonhard Vollmuth, the court found that their “active participation” had not been proven and that their “good behavior” after the war warranted judicial forgiveness. The prosecution had called for jail sentences ranging up to two years.
Ludwig Mueller, a laborer of Grosskrotzenburg near Hanau, has been sentenced in Frankfurt to nine months’ imprisonment for wantonly wrecking Jewish homes during the November pogroms of 1938.
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