Police Sergeant Friedrich Pohl, of the Hamburg Police Force, was put on trial to-day for shooting last March at Government Councillor Lassally, a high police officer, who is a Jew, because he was reprimanding him for engaging in Hitlerist propaganda, and pointing out that this was against the service regulations.
I wasn’t going to stand a Jew questioning me about what I was doing, Sergeant Pohl declared when he was arrested. I refused to stand at attention before a Jewish Republican. I meant to kill him, he added, only my revolver jammed.
The Counsel for the Defence has been briefed by the Hitlerist Party.
Councillor Lassally was seriously wounded and had to be operated on, the bullet being removed from his stomach. The trial had to be held over till now because he was not well enough before to be able to attend in court to give evidence against Pohl.
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