Prison sentences for several Jews arrested for “spreading atrocity reports” were announced by Nazi courts today. The Hessian court condemned Herr Alzey, a Jewish merchant, to three months imprisonment for saying that a Jewish shop-keeper of Worms, officially announced as a suicide, had in reality been beaten to death by Nazi storm-troopers.
The court declared that the Worms shop-keeper had been taken into “protective custody” and been well-treated by the Nazis, and repeated that his death was a suicide and not a murder.
The Jewish merchant Martinheim was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment by the Berlin court for having been heard to say that the morgue was packed with Jewish corpses.
Emil Mandelkow, a Jewish newspaper vendor, was given eighteen months in jail for stating that a rabbi died of a beating received from Nazi hands near Schoenhausertor, and that he had seen another Jew with the Nazi emblem, the Swastika, branded on his forehead. Mandelkow had also alleged that government authorities had bribed several witnesses of the beating and the branding not to report what they had seen.
Martin Helm, a German Jew, was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment on the charge of repeating atrocity tales.
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