Because he continued to maintain a three-year-old relationship with an “Aryan” woman in defiance of the
Nuremberg laws which make “Rassenschande” (race defilement) a crime, a Mannheim court has sentenced a Jewish war veteran to a year’s term in jail. In passing sentence, the press reports, the court explained it was lenient in consideration of the defendant’s war record.
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