Johann Strunk, 53, school teacher in nearby Bergisch-Gladbach, today was fined $70 here by the local court which found him guilty of disseminating “viciously anti-Semitic” leaflets which, police said, had beer produced by an American group.
The complainant against Strunk was Julius Dreifuss, chairman of the Jewish Communities of North Rhine province, Strunk himself said the leaflets had been sent to him from the United States, and showed that the place where the hate literature originated bore a return address of a post office box in the Yorkville section of New York. The leaflets were in the German language.
Strunk acknowledged to the court also that he himself was the author of a brochure entitled “Did Hitler Really Destroy Six Million Jews?” In that pamphlet, he declared that the existence of extermination camps under the Nazi regime was “a Jewish invention,” and suggested that crimes against Jews had been committed by Jews disguised in the uniforms of the Nazi Storm troops.
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