Twenty displaced Jews who were arrested on Sunday in connection with a clash at Landsberg between Jewish DP’s and German civilians will go on trial Friday morning before an American Military Government court at Kaufbeurem, near Landsberg, on charges of participating in a riot, resisting arrest and assaulting members of the Allied forces, it was announced here today.
Eugene Valens, United Press correspondent, was escorted back to Munich under armed guard after he attempted to enter the Landsberg camp. The chief of staff of the Ninth Division of the Third Army, which controls the area, admitted that the camp was out of bounds today, but added that it would be open again by tomorrow.
Last night, it was announced that the AMG authorities have issued warrants for several more of the DP’s involved in the disturbance at Landsberg. The announcement confirmed that those under detention have been on a hunger strike since early Monday.
The AMG announcement stressed that the Germans involved were orderly and that there was no trouble with them whatsoever. It charged that after some of the Jews had been forced back into the camp by American military police, other DP’s looted homes and assaulted civilians.
The only authority quoted by the AMG as the basis for its report was the German Minister of the Interior in Bavaria, who claimed that two Germans were killed, which, the report adds, was not confirmed.
Charging that the American MP’s had been stoned and insulted, the report added that the crowd “appeared incited rather than controlled by the DP police.”
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