Hamburg Mayor Mar Bauer has offered to pay 1,500 Deutschemarks in damages to Karena Niehoff, a Jewish journalist in Berlin, after a judge in that city declared “unwarranted” the Mayor’s remarks that Miss Niehoff was a “tool of the Communists” and that she was responsible for an anti-Semitic demonstration inside the court during the trial of Veit Harlan, producer of the Nazi-made anti-Semitic film “Jew Suess.”
Miss Niehoff was the only witness courageous enough to testify against Harlan at his fourth trial on charges of crimes against humanity, and was abused inside the courtroom and abused and assaulted as she made her way from the court under escort.
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