A well-known Jewish industrialist of Bielefeld has been sentenced to four months in jail for ordering “Aryan” employes of his textile factory to suspend operations for one and a half hours last Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, it was revealed here today.
The public prosecutor asked a severe sentence because the industrialist had allegedly told the Nazi Workers Council, which protested the stoppage for a Jewish holiday, that he wouldn’t observe national holidays “if you do not heed my holidays.”
The court ruled the manufacturer had “gravely insulted” his “Aryan” employes.
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