An 18-year-old youth, accused of being “a member of a young Nazi movement,” is under $2,500 bail here today, being held for a hearing scheduled for Thursday, as a result of an attack on an off-duty policeman who is Jewish.
The youth, Clifford Roehn, attacked and beat the policeman, Bernard Goldberg, “specifically because he was Jewish,” an assistant district attorney told the magistrate before whom Roehn was arraigned. The altercation occurred Saturday in front of Goldberg’s home in Brooklyn.
A search of Roehn’s home, the magistrate was told, revealed a quantity of anti-Semitic literature as well as some Nazi emblems. He allegedly told policemen who arrested him that he “hates Jews and Italians” and wants to be “a muscle man for the Nazis.”
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