Col. Ulrich Fleischhauer, the chief Nazi expert in the “Protocols” trial, again monopolized the entire session in court with his testimony today and will continue to testify tomorrow.
In reply to a protest by the prosecution that the Nazi “expert,” who was scheduled to testify for one day only, has now taken up three days, Col. Fleischhauer argued that to prove that the “Protocols” are genuine is much more difficult than to prove the contrary, and therefore requires more time.
CHARGE STIRS MIRTH
The Nazi expert provoked laughter when, after lengthy quotations from “Altnculand,” a book by Dr. Theodor Herzl, he alleged that there was an elder Doge who was chancellor of the Jewish “secret state.”
“Will the Jews who are present here give the name of this supreme elder Doge?” Col. Fleischhauer asked, addressing the court loudly.
Met with laughter, Fleischhauer was unperturbed, and asserted that he knows that “no Jew will reveal these secrets.”
‘QUOTES’ TALMUD
The Nazi “expert” also made an effort to ascribe the “Protocols” to the B’nai B’rith. At the same time he continued to quote at length from the works of Achad Ha’Am, the Zionist spiritual leader, to prove his allegations. He also quoted what he claimed were excerpts from the Talmud.
Describing Cicero, Goethe, Schopenhauer and Otto Weininger as anti-Jewish, Col. Fleischhauer argued that the great minds of the world have found fault with the Jews.
Before the session opened today, the pro-Jewish expert, Dr. Baumgartner, asked the court how long Col. Fleischhauer would be permitted to continue his testimony. Judge Meyer replied that he has given the Nazi “expert” the right to speak as long as he wishes.
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