A local German court has sentenced one German to three months in prison and has given a four-month suspended sentence to another following their conviction of having made anti-Semitic remarks about a Jewish woman.
Dr. Hermann Herweg, a veteran Nazi, who formed a partnership with the woman several years ago, recently had a falling out with her and, in front of the staff of a garage which they owned together, declared: “This woman would have been gassed, too, if I had met her in 1941.” For this and other remarks he went to prison.
His foreman in the garage, Georg Mayerhofer, who said of the woman that “they forgot to gas her,” threatened that she would not leave the garage alive if she ever showed her face” there again. He was given the suspended sentence.
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