Count Helldorf, the commander of the Hitlerist storm troops in Berlin, who is standing his trial here with other Hitlerist leaders on the charge of having organised and directed the anti-Jweish excesses in Berlin on Rosh Hashanah, was unable to appear in court to-day, because of severe injuries inflicted on him by other prisoners, whom him Counsel accused of being Communists, while he was walking through the prison-courtyard, and the trial has consequently been held up. It was expected that the trial would have been concluded to-day.
During yesterday’s proceedings, a Jewish prisoner named Gerson, who was called as a police witness, told the court that the Young Steelhelm Brigade leader, Engineer Brandt, another of the accused, was conducting an anti-Jewish agitation in prison, inciting the non-Jewish prisoners to attack the Jewish prisoners. Brandt, he said, had called over to him – “Your turn is coming! You’ll go through the same thing as your co-religionists in the Kurfuerstendamm!”.
Engineer Brandt claimed that Gerson had provoked him by displaying the sign of the Red-Frontfighters. Gerson denied this, saying that he was an anti-Communist and that his political opinions are those of the German National Party.
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