The German Court of Appeals in the British zone has reversed a lower court which had sentenced two Germans to eight and six-year terms, respectively, for the murder of several Jews during the 1938 pograms. A new trial will be held within two months.
Jewish groups and German liberal and trade union organizations had protested the mildness of the sentences. Several thousand persons attended a protest demonstration in Bremen last May to urge revision of the court’s verdict.
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