A Czechoslovak youth who desecrated a Jewish cemetery in Dvur Kraleve was today sentenced to two months Imprisonment.
Meanwhile, the court trying Meter von Wisliczeny in Bratislava today heard the former Gestapo chief and advisor on Jewish affairs to the Slovak puppet government plead not guilty to charges that he was responsible for deporting to their death thousands of Jew from Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary and elsewhere in the Balkans. The defendant said he had merely carried out orders from Berlin.
Although the defense counsel objected to including the charge of deporting peek Jews to the death camps in Poland in the trial, the prosecution produced a note from the Greek legation la Prague asking that Wisliczeny be tried for his crimes against the Jews of Greece.
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