Otto Kurtz, a tailor, was sentenced to-day to 8 months’ imprisonment for participation in the Hitlerist riots which took place on October 13th., when the new Reichstag was opened. Kurtz was caught red-handed smashing the windows of a big fur store owned by a Jew named Cohn in the Leipziger strasse, one of the principal West End shopping streets in Berlin. He is the only Hitlerist who was actually caught in the act during these disturbances.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
