A West German businessman was given a three-month suspended jail sentence today after being found guilty of making anti-Semitic remarks during a chess tournament in a Berlin cafe in June 1960.
The businessman, Karl Doernte, 64, was convicted on charges of having told Viktor Winz, a Jew, “The air is polluted in here. Why don’t you get back to the gas chamber?”
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