Ludwig Zind, suspended schoolteacher being tried here for public defamation of Jews, changed his tune late today and attempted to minimize his anti-Semitic statements.
Explaining remarks to restaurateur Kurt Lieser that not enough Jews had been gassed by the Nazis, Zind asserted that he had only meant to imply that the statistical estimates of the number of Jews killed by the Nazis were incorrect.
Zind’s attorney then told the court he was prepared for a “reconciliation” with Lieser, who testified today as to the schoolteacher’s remarks including one that Lieser was a “dirty Jew” and that he should have “gone up in smoke” too. The presiding judge, Dr. H, Eckert, told the attorney Zind’s gesture had come “too late.”
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