At the first election meeting of the German nationalists held here, most of the speakers made vicious and insulting statements concerning the Jews. While Toller, a soldier who was severely wounded during the war, and is now president of the Jewish War Veterans Association in Germany, was making a speech of protest against the anti-Semitic charges, he was attacked from behind and beaten.
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