The Court of Appeal here has sentenced to six months in prison the National Socialist member of parliament, Herr Strasser, who insulted the Prussian Prime Minister Braun, the vice-president of the Berlin police, Herr Weiss, and the Jewish lawyer Lowenthal. Strasser had accused Lowenthal of defending a Jew charged with criminal assault. The trial of the accused man developed that he was a Christian and one of the leaders of the anti-Semitic Voelkischer Stahlheim.
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