Minister of Justice Schmidt, a Catholic leader, was attacked during a session of the Prussian Diet when he aroused the ire of the Nazis by reading an open letter from the President of the German Association of Lawyers, Dix, branding the Nazis for attacking Jewish lawyers.
Minister Schmidt associated himself with the stand of Dix, whereupon the Nazis attempted to strike him. The session was temporarily suspended following this incident.
The contretemps started when the Diet rejected the Nazi bill urging amnesty for the participants in the Kuerfuerstendamm excesses and in the desecrations of Jewish cemeteries.
The Nazi leader, Kube, threatened to cause the disruption of the Diet if the amnesty bill were not passed.
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