A Kiel denazification court today again postponed the trial of Wolfgang Hedler, suspended anti-Semitic deputy of the West German Parliament, to give him time to recover from injuries suffered when is was beaten up by Social Democratic deputies at the Bonn Parliament.
Hedler was recently acquitted by a German court of charges of inciting to racism during a speech in which he suggested that the only thing wrong with Hitler’s program of making Germany “Judenrein” was the methods used.
The German deputy’s new trial is based on charges that he falsified an official questionnaire concerning his affiliations with the Nazi Party, stating that he had joined the party in 1934 when he actually became a member before it came to power. The prosecutor stated that he had documentary evidence compiled by the United States Document Center in Herlin that Hedler had become a Nazi in 1932. He also has possession of another questionnaire — written in 1938 — in which Hedler claims party membership from 1931.
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