Menashe Feuermann was sentenced to serve three months in jail for spitting on a Nazi newspaper poster, the court ordering the sentence to be carried out immediately. Feurmann is feeble-minded.
While the Free City of Danzig is under the rule of a League of Nations Commission, recent elections have given the Danzig Nazis full powers and the Nazi rulers, although unable to carry out persecutions of the Jews in Hitlerite style, attempt to annoy the Jews in small affairs.
Recently a Polish woman was sent to jail for having said that she had read that Hitler was descended from Jews.
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