fore the first court in Saarbruecken. They admitted their guilt, and the court sentenced them, as proposed by the public prosecutor, to terms of imprisonment of seven to eight months.
The Voelkischer Beobachter, Hitler’s chief organ, complains that Prof. Ernst Horneffer of Giesen, is traveling throughout the country lecturing on Spinoza, putting forward “the sensational idea” that the German people owes its great poetic genius, Goethe, to the Jewish philosopher. The paper threatens Prof. Horneffer with reprisal, stating “he repudiates the racial idea when he alleges that a true genius can grow beyond the qualities of his race.”
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