The sensational trial against the Reichstag deputy, Goebel, Berlin leader of the National-Socialist party, who was accused of insulting President Hindenburg in an article in his weekly in which he declared that Hindenburg does what he is being prompted to do by his Jewish advisors, has just ended with a verdict of the jury that Goebel pay 800 marks fine. This mild punishment has amazed Republican circles in Germany, which are demanding that all these cases of anti-Semitic libels against the German government be brought before one court for punishment.
Goebel’s demand at the beginning of the trial that Jews be not accepted on the jury was refused by the court. The state prosecuting attorney had demanded a nine-months’ jail punishment for Goebel.
Besides articles, ###aricature had also appeared in Goebel’s paper in which Hindenburg was pictured as the German godfather who, adorned with a Jewish emblem, allows the enslaved German people to be defiled.
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