A witness at the trial of a Nazi camp commandant charged with 297 murders testified in Ansbach yesterday that a camp doctor killed 100 Jewish prisoners in honor of Hitler’s 53rd birthday in 1942. Victor Opressnig of Linz, Austria, related the event at the trial of Karl Chmielewski, who had been commandant of Gusen. The name of the doctor was not given.
In West Berlin, a tailor was sentenced to five months imprisonment after telling a policeman he would kill a Jewish restaurant owner “and smash his windows.” The tailor, George Lubkowitz, was accused of racial defamation when he told the police: “I am a German. The Jews are getting insolent again.” The police were called by the proprietor of the restaurant after Lubkowitz refused to pay his bill of three deutschemarks, about 70 cents.
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