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Hitlerist Storm Troop Leaders Who Fled After Excesses Return and Surrender to Court for Trial: Heavy

September 23, 1931
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Count Helldorf, the Commander of the Hitlerist Storm Troops in Berlin, and his Chief of Staff, Ernst, who fled from Berlin after the anti-Jewish excesses on Rosh Hashanah, breaking their bond to appear in court for trial, have returned to Berlin and have reported themselves to the court, being immediately detained under arrest.

They will appear before the Court of Summary Jurisdiction which is now trying the other 42 rioters, and it is expected that they will receive very severe sentences, since several witnesses have sworn depositions that they saw both Count Helldorf and Ernst issuing orders from their motor-car when they drove through the Kurfuerstendamm during the excesses.

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