The young man who shot at Dr. Guenther, the antisemitic Professor of “Raceology” at Jena University, is not a Jew, the J.T.A. learns. The wind is thus taken out of the agitation started by the Hitlerists to incite people to reprisals against the Jews, by alleging that the assailant was a Jew, and that the Jews were plotting to assassinate all the Hitlerist leaders.
His name is stated to be Dassa. At first the Jena police said that he was Spanish, but later it transpired that this belief, based on the fact that his revolver was of Spanish make, was erroneous. He has declared that he is an Austrian subject, and insists that he was acting entirely on his own, and has no accomplices.
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