Arthur Goetze, the neo-Nazi publisher of a leaflet which asserted that “Zionists, Wall Street and the Kremlin rulers had conspired to exterminate the German race,” was sentenced here to nine months’ imprisonment. The court also ordered that he be forbidden to issue any publications for a period of five years.
Goetze, a follower of Mathilde Ludendorff, widow of the late Gen. Ludendorff, who had supported Hitler’s rise to power, was released by another court here last January, after his arrest, on the grounds that his leaflet had not been directed against the Jews as a people but only against “a small group belonging to the Jewish world-power clique.”
He was rearrested on new complaints brought by Dr. Curt Radlauer, a Jew who formerly held a government position, and Dr. H.G. Van Dam, secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. The conviction and sentence followed today, in another district court.
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