A denazification court here has convicted Konrad Goebbels, brother of Joseph Goebbels, the former Nazi Minister for propaganda, and a publisher, and Konrad Staebe, editor-in-chief of Goebbels newspaper of being major offenders and has sentenced them to prison terms and heavy fines.
The court found that the two men were partly responsible for the persecution of Jews by the futherance of an anti-Semitic editorial policy. Goebbels received a four-and-a-half-year sentence and was fined 70 percent of his property, while Staebe was sentenced to four years and lose of half his property.
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