Hjalmar Schacht, financial expert of the Nazi regime who was cleared of war crimes charges by the Allied war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg, but was later convicted by a German court of being a high Nazi, has instituted a libel suit against Dr. Philip Auerbach, Bavarian Commissioner for Persecutees, who publicly called Schacht a war criminal. Dr. Auerbach’s charge was made in a letter to a German newspaper.
Gerhard Daum-Duckwitz, former police chief of Koblenz, has been sentenced to two years and ten months imprisonment for mistreatment of Jewish and Polish prisoners in a concentration camp during the war.
A Cologne court has sentenced a German woman, Gertrude Risch, to three months in jail for publicly insulting Jews. Frau Risch remarked in a restaurant that she was “sorry that all the Jews had not been gassed.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
