Twenty Jewish DP’s arrested following a disturbance at Landsberg on April 28, and nine arrested in the middle of April following a clash with German police on a train travelling from Munich to Stuttgart go on trial at Augsburg tomorrow morning. The 20 will be tried by the American Military Government general court, which is the highest AMG tribunal, while the others will be judged by an AMG intermediate court.
Two new defense attorneys have been engaged to aid Dr. Samuel Gringauz and Shloma Orenstein, the present counsel for the Landsberg DP’s. They are Capt. William Stanhope, Military Government officer at Ingolstadt and Capt. Abraham Hyman of the Judge Advocate’s Office.
The trial of nine German civilians and four Jewish DP’s charged with participating in a riot in the Bavarian town of Oberammingen will be held in a military court at Mindelheim on May 20, AMG officials announced yesterday.
Included among the German defendants is Martin Mayer, the town’s mayor, who on the night of March 26 led anti-Semitic attacks against 130 Jews living in a converted school house. The German mob shouted “Death to the Jews” and “Long Live Hitler.” The mayor is charged by witnesses with having threatened that he would see “all the Jews in town murdered this night.”
The bodies of two unidentified displaced Jews have been discovered in a wood in a suburb of Munich. Dr. Zalman Grinberg, president of the Committee of Liberated Jews of Germany, has stated that they are not the two Jewish guards who disappeared from the Diessen DP kibbutz, near Landaberg. He asserted that the dead men were shot and several fingers out off, indicating the motive for the killings was robbery.
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