A formal complaint was lodged by the Social Democratic Students Association against 43 former judges and prosecutors of Hitler’s people’s tribunals, it was disclosed today. The complaints were filed with authorities in Baden-Wurttenberg and West Berlin.
The League of Christian Democratic Students at the same time demanded here yesterday that Dr. Theodor Oberlander resign as Federal Minister for Refugees. The students said that aside from allegations of Dr. Oberlander’s participation in the massacre of Jews in Lemberg during the war, his Nazi party membership disqualified him from holding an influential Government post.
Dr. Oberlander responded to the latest demand for his resignation by again declaring his determination not to resign. He said the decision on his staying in Chancellor Adenauer’s Cabinet was a matter for the Cabinet and the Christian Democratic party to decide.
Two swastika daubers were given heavy sentences today at Schorten, near Wilheims-haven after conviction of smearing the Nazi symbol on tombstones in the town’s Jewish cemetery. One of the men was sentenced to 22 months’ Imprisonment, the other to 20 months.
Police announced today that a 17-year-old former mental patient, A. Hofmann, had confessed he tried to set fire to the Amberg synagogue on January 13. Police said the former fireman told them that he tried to destroy the synagogue because he hated “the Jews, the police and the fire brigade.”
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