A 19 year old Hitlerist named Grische has been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by the law court at Meseritz, in the German part of Posen, because, together with another Hitlerist who has not been apprehended, he knocked down and kicked a Jewish merchant named Riesenburg, kicking his ribs in, while he shouted: This is our revenge because you put our comrades into prison for the Kurfuer stendamm affair.
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