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Acquit 2 Jewish Communists, Sentenced to Death

October 7, 1932
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Two Jewish Communists, Werner Calm and Fritz Zweig, sentenced to death on September 21st, for alleged attack on Hitler Storm Troopers, were acquitted today by the court.

The two Jewish youths were acquitted after the public prosecutor himself had changed his previous stand and instead of calling for the death sentence asked that Calm he sentenced to ten years imprisonment and Zweig to two years.

The two Jews, Calm aged 23 and Zweig, twenty, had pleaded not guilty of participation in the attack in Charlottenberg where one Nazi was killed.

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