The Federal Supreme Court has ordered confiscation of a book on charges it glorified the Nazi regime, fined the publisher and gave a suspended prison sentence to the author.
The book, “People Without Leadership,” also was ruled to be “treasonous to democratic order.” Publisher Leonhard Schleuter, who served for two weeks in 1955 as Minister of Education in Lower Saxony, was fined 1,200 marks, Author Herbert Grabert was given a nine-month prison term and the sentence was suspended for three years.
Grabert also is the editor of the “German High School Teachers Periodical,” which is published in Tubingen and distributed to former Nazi teachers. Grabert asserted in the last issue of the periodical that from 1942 to 1944 “a conspiracy circle of 100 behind Hitler’s back had murdered 350,000 to 500,000 Jews.” The aim of the alleged conspiracy’s killings, he asserted, was “to destroy Germany by discrediting National Socialism in the eyes of the world and to establish the State of Israel.”
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