Numerous streets in East Berlin were surrounded this morning by political police and storm troopers, and many Jewish homes were raided on the pretext of a search for “atrocity campaign” material. The search was being continued throughout the day, according to telegraphic reports received here.
A special court sentenced Isaac Koliner, 35, a Polish-Jewish grocer, to six months imprisonment because he was quoted as saying “If I had as many marks as there have been Jews arrested, I would be a wealthy man.”
A special court in Frankfort sentenced Isaak Lesser to one year’s imprisonment because he told friends in Wiesbaden that there were a thousand Jewish patients in the Frankfort hospital.
Minister of Justice Hans Kerrl, in today’s “Deutsch-Allgemeine Zeitung,” denies a quotation ascribed to him to the effect that it would take years to ascertain the number of Jewish lawyers who will be permitted to practice. He described as a gross exaggeration, the further statement, that, pending determination of this point, twelve hundred Jewish attorneys would be permitted to practice law.
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