German Court Acquits 20 Nazi
Police in Warsaw Ghetto Killings
German Producer Invited
To Stage Play in Israel
FRANKFURT, (JTA)-Famed
theatrical producer and director
DORTMUND, (JTA)-Twenty I had executed 100 male and 10
Erwin Piscator has been invited
members of a wartilne Dort- 1 female Jews as hostages for the
to stage Richard Wright's "Na-,-
murder"
of
one
Nazi,
a
"mur-
mund police unit were acquitted
by a local our of charges of ! der" which it was proved never tive Son" at the Chamber The-
murdering Jews in the Warsaw occurred. It was also noted that ater do Tel Aviv.
An anti - Nazi, Piscator left
Ghetto. The unit, "Dortmund the commander of the unit had
Police Battation 61," was assign- instructed the men always to_ Germany in 1938 and went to
shoot to kill when firing at Jews, the United States, where he
ed to guarding the ghetto.
headed New York's "Dramatic
The court ruled that because else it "did not pay to use gaso-
Workshop" until his return to
of their level of intelligence and line" as they rode through the
Germany in 1951.
education they did not know ghetto.
The court, in acquitting the
Recently awarded the Goethe
that they were committing
crimes when they executed Jew- defendants, said that in view of Plaque by the State of Hesse,
ish hostages in the ghetto on their educational level they. were Mr. Piscator hopes to travel to
orders from superior officers. not conscious of the illegality of Israel in late April and to put
The 20 former officers and non- their acts, nor could the prose- "Native Son" on the stage in
commissioned officers were in- cution refute their assertions mid-May. He said he looks for-
dicted after many years of pro- that it was "customary" to shoot ward to Israel with great expec-
crastination. They were repre- hostages, and that they were tations,. particularly since a
under _compulsion to participate number of Israel's leading the-
sented by 12 defense attornies.
The entire German press, with in such shootings and execu- atrical figures studied stagecraft
under his direction.
the exception of the local Dort- Lions.
mund newspapers, ignored the
trial and acquittal. The local
press reported that witnesses
had testified that the policemen, R
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members of a special guard
battalion in the ghetto, shot
Jews as a sport and tallied the Organized anti-Semitism has also known as the Christian Na-
number of their kills on mess changed its tactics radically tionalist Crusade, and Frank L.
hall doors and walls. Several of during the past seven years, the Britton, also of Los Angeles,
the defendants had actually American Jewish Committee publisher of various slick paper
confessed before the trial. warns in a recently printed do- anti-Semitic tracts.
A notable feature of the trial current, "Anti-Semitic Activity
Pointing out that today's anti-
was the testimony of policemen in the United States: A Report Semites have learned "how to
and other witnesses who had and Appraisal." Made public by salt public debate with hate pro-
remarkable loss of memory on Irving M. Engel . of New York, paganda," the AJC report says
the witness stand, asserting they AJC president, the report is part that "ultra-nationalist" groups
"could not remember" details of an AJC research project on offer convenient platforms for
this strategy.
which they had included in bigotry.
Extreme isolationism, opposi-
signed statements two and three Named in the report as fo-
years ago. Only one witness, menting anti-Semitism through , tion to foreign aid, unreasoning
conscience - stricken and now their publications are Coilde Mc- I hostility to the United Nations,
blind, former member of the
Union, N. J., publisher condemnation of both major
battalion, testified as he had of t h e bi-weekly "Common political parties and agitation
done previously. The court ruled Sense"; Gerald L. K. Smith, Los for "a realignment of political
him incompetent. Angeles, who publishes "The forces," are among the themes
One of the major points of the Cross and the Flag" and heads falsely stressed by the ultra-na-
indictment was that these 20 the Christian Nationalist Party, tionalists, the report adds.
"While some of the ultra-na-
tionalist groups espouse retro-
gressive economic reforms," the
AJC report continues, "and
others have political aims, all
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