Charges of “race defilement” against three Jewish employees of the Bachrach Department store, which resulted in anti-Semitic demonstrations last December, were aired in court today.
In addition charges of abetting the “race defilement” were lodged against a seventy-seven-year old employee of the store. He will be tried later.
The three employees, who were accused of maintaining intimate relations with “Aryan” salesgirls, gave their ages as fifty-one, forty-seven and twenty-nine respectively.
Demonstrations following the arrests last December prompted the police to close the store, the biggest in the city, “for the protection of public order.” It was later permitted to reopen with an “Aryan” manager in charge, with the chief of police announcing that it would continue to be known as a Jewish enterprise.
It was said that the arrests had been made in attempt to force the Jewish owners to sell the store to “Aryans” at a fraction of its value.
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