Carl Krumsieck, a local merchant, went on trial today on charges of having publicly made statements condoning Nazi atrocities and defaming the memory of the dead. Specifically, Krumsieck is charged with having said in a restaurant that the extermination of the Jews of Germany should be followed with the “shooting or poisoning” of all the Jews in Israel.
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