The Bonn public prosecutor opened a libel action here today against the attorney of a major West German automobile firm who was accused by the Central Council of Jews in Germany of slandering the Jewish community of the Federal Republic.
The attorney, Dr. A. Schmidt, questioned during a meeting of the neo-Nazi Reichspartei in December 1959 on the desecration of the Cologne synagogue on Christmas eve whether a synagogue could be regarded as a House of God. “If we heard Martin Luther on the subject, ” the attorney was quoted as saying, “there would be storms of laughter.”
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