The Essener National Zeitung, General Goering’s newspaper, today strongly condemned “lenient sentences” meted out to two defendants in a “race-defilement” trial.
The Essen Criminal Court jailed a 23-year-old Jewish boy to nine months and fined his “Aryan” sweetheart thirty marks.
“Such lenient sentences do not procure protection for German blood and honor,” the newspaper said.
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