Describing him as a “foreigner who left his native land when still a young man,” Reichminister of Justice Frank viciously attacked Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky in a special radio broadcast on the freeing of five men arrested in the riot on board the liner Bremen on July 26.
“That a Jew should dare to represent the sentiment of the United States,” said the Nazi Minister of Justice, “is a highly regrettable thing.”
Magistrate Brodsky, he said, as a Jew was naturally filled with hatred for Nazi Germany. “No Jew can understand what National Socialism stands for,” he declared.
German newspapers today continue to fulminate against Magistrate Brodsky’s decision, calling it a great insult to the Reich.
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