The German prosecutor at the trial of Veit Harlan, producer of the anti-Semitic film “Jew Suess,” has called on the court to impose a two-year prison term and a fine of 105,000 marks on the defendant. He stated that if Germany wished to protest crimes committed against Germans after the war, “we must first clean our own house.”
A committee of the Bonn Parliament has decided to reopen its investigation of the case of Gustav Hedler, rightist deputy who made a public statement to the effect that the only thing that was wrong with Hitler’s rule of Germany was the methods he used in ridding Germany of the Jews. The committee believes that Hedler falsified his political background when he ran for office and that this constitutes grounds for moving for his removal from Parliament.
Former German Sergeant George Michael Schaaf committed suicide this week-end in prison. He had just been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for committing crimes against humanity while serving at a concentration camp for Jews.
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