Two Germans were sentenced to 19 and 10 weeks imprisonment for stating publicly that if they had the power “then every Jew would have been gassed.” The verdict was issued by a court in the nearby town of Hanau, after a jury found both Germans guilty of starting a riot in a Jewish-owned bar and of making inciting anti-Jewish statements.
A six-week jail sentence for similar anti-Jewish statements was imposed by a court in West Berlin upon a German charged with shouting in a bar that “not enough Jews have been gassed.” However, the defendant ignored the court’s decision because he lives in East Berlin, which is under Communist rule and could not be extradited.
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