The Stuttgart Grand Jury yesterday dismissed a trial against five leading Gestapo officials charged with maltreatment and deportation to death centers of 2,463 Jews of Wuertemberg. The Jews were deported to the infamous Nazi death centers at Oswiecim, Theresienstadt and Riga. The court ruled that, under Occupation law 10, it is not entitled to conduct trials for war crimes. The court’s decision was appealed by the prosecution.
A German court in Berlin today sentenced Frieda Busch, 42, to 18 months imprisonment for insulting Jews. Frau Busch was arrested after a brawl in a tavern during which she berated the bartender and a Jewish customer when the bartender refused to serve her because she was obviously drunk, but did serve the Jew. Before the police were called, Frau Busch shouted: “Times will change and then it will be your turn again for refusing to serve me, and serving a Jew. Unfortunately that rascal was forgotten in the gassings.”
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