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 C 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 Sprin Proad f favor extremist techniques in combating communism - free- swinging, wild-accusation tactics TEXTURED LOOP which indiscriminately charge liberals with being communistic. All-Wool First Quality - "During the past decade, ultra- nationalist organizations have increased immeasurably and they '.-:.koe•Ake.gi•?..,Ar4,,--so- • >•$.51.,,•; now offer tempting opportuni- mss. •• ties for infiltration by anti- ....;i4(4g Semitic elements." The AJC report states that ultra-nationalists made little • • • ' headway with the average Amer- _k ,f • ican "until the cold war brought g about the present tense atmos- • 40-OZ. RUBBERIZED PAD phere of our national life." Since World War II, these groups have 2. CUSTOM INSTALLATION spent millions of dollars to ad- vertise their views through all 3. DECORATOR COLORS: media, the report adds. 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