The president of the Jewish community in the city of Kassel, Max Levy, has been acquitted of “publicly insulting” the former top Nazi boss of that region of Hesse, ex-Gauleiter Karl Weinrich.
Weinrich, whom a degasification court had sentenced to the maximum penalty of ten years’ imprisonment for Nazi crimes, took part in the meeting of a Kassel sports club last year. Mr. Levy, who is a member of the club, walked out in protest and told a journalist that he could not endure the presence of a prominent Nazi upon whose shoulders rested part of the guilt for the death of the Jews of Kassel.
Ex-Nazi Weinrich thereupon brought suit against Mr. Levy for “public insulation.” The Hesse authorities took up his complaint, bringing the case to trial.
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