Reinfried Freuneck, a German male nurse, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by a Weiden court jury on charges of violating the law against spreading racial hatred. He had declared publicly that “all the Jews should be exterminated” and offered to “volunteer to give poison injections to all surviving Jews.”
Charges against the nurse were brought by the state prosecutor and two members of the Jewish community in Weiden. The defendant was accused of making the statements to four patients in a hospital in a discussion of the escape of Dr. Hans Eisele, former concentration camp doctor, to Egypt.
In West Berlin, meanwhile, Heinz Jost, one time divisional commander of the Nazi security police, was fined 15,000 marks (nearly $4,000) by a denazification tribunal. The Berlin court is weighing possible criminal action against Jost, who was charged with responsibility in the murder of thousands of Jews in Lithuania.
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