Disputes between Milwaukee Germans over the swastika flag reached a new climax when Gerhardt Oosterwyk, a jeweler, and leader in the Federation of German Societies, began a $3,000 damage suit against a swastika advocate who had falsely accused him of exhibiting his goods under the Nazi flag at a German week display here.
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