A young Jewish typist, Edith Hammerschlag, twentyfive years of age, has been sentenced here to an eight months’ prison term on the charge of spreading “atrocity” reports.
Miss Hammerschlag, who had been working in the offices of the Kodak Company, was charged with having spread a report that Professor Goldscheider of Berlin had shown her his assistant, who had been beaten and his wounds covered with salt. She is charged also with having spread a report that another Jew named Jacoby had been blinded by the Nazis.
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