The Reichsgericht, the highest German criminal and civil court, today upheld the action of the lower court in acquitting M. Waldmann, a Nazi agitator, who had distributed leaflets in Silesia in which the Silesian Jews were compared to “parasites sucking blood which one usually destroys.”
In confirming the lower court’s decision the Reichsgericht associated itself with the verdict of the previous court which found that Waldmann had not propagated the use of force against the Jews because in another leaflet he had compared them to “flies which are usually removed but not killed.”
Commenting on the decision of the Reichsgericht and the line of reasoning on which it is predicated, the Vossische Zeitung today describes it as “one of the maddest ever pronounced.”
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