In the course of to-day’s proceedings, two brothers named Deterding declared that they had been driving in their motor car through the Kurfuerstendamm just behind the car in which Count Helldorf and his Chief of Staff Ernst were seated, and they had definitely seen Helldorf and Ernst issuing orders to beat the Jews. The two Deterdings had called up a police guard, whereupon Count Helldorf had shouted over to him: “You damned Jew-bankers”.
Count Helldorf interjected at this point that he had not said “Jew-bankers”, but “Jew-bands, meaning pedlars.
Several victims of the excesses, all Jews, some German Jews and some Roumanian Jews, gave evidence to-day, all agreeing that the Nazi storm-troopers had attacked only on the orders of their leaders.
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