The confiscation of published copies of an anti-Semitic book by Erich Ludendorf, the German First World War general who headed various anti-Jewish movements in the pre-Hitler era, was made permanent and valid today when the Federal High Court rejected an appeal by the publishers against a lower-court confiscation order.
The book, “The Extermination of Freemasonry By Revealing Its Secrets,” was ordered confiscated by the Munich District Court last July.
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