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having remarked in a barber-
shop that it was "too bad that
in the Third Reich all the Jews
were not gassed."
He has already been sus-
pended by the authorities from
his elementary school post.
Zind Case Not Typical
of New Germany, Press Says
LONDON, (JTA) — Neither
informed Jewish nor German
opinion views the Ludwig Zind
case as indicative of a resurg-
ence of anti-Semitism in Ger-
many, the Daily Telegraph re-
ported in a dispatch from its
Bonn correspondent.
The report noted that froM
time to time "relatively minor"
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expressions of anti-Semitism
LUDWIG ZIND, 51-year-old suspended scliool teacher, is occur in bars and the offend-
the first person convicted of anti-Semitism in West Germany ers are treated "with compara-
in 25 years. A court, which found him guilty of endorsing
tive severity" by the German
Nazi methods of exterminating Jews, sentenced him to a
courts.
year in prison at Offenburg.
The Bonn correspondent
quoted Dr. H. G. van Dam, sec-
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Council of Jews in Germany, as
stating that suspended school-
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OFFENBURG, (JTA) — Sus- most severely injured of Naz- Jewish leader told the corres-
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Taking the stand, Galinski
Zind has filed an appeal
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against the decision of the said he had become a plaintiff post.
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last week sentencing him to hatred or revenge but because German Younger Generation
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — Given
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lowing his conviction on a many wanted to be "left in
finish
the opportunity, anti-Semitism
charge of public defamation of peace."
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While he granted every man might again find favor among
Jews and voicing threats of vio-
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living rooms,
gal.
hallways
the right to a mistake, he said certain groups in Germany,
lence against a Jew.
Sen. Joachim Lipschitz of West
The Federal constitutional it was necessary to admit such
Berlin, told a gathering at the
court at Karlsruhe must decide errors and that mass crimes New School for Social Research.
whether to accept the appeal. should never be condoned.
Zind, who was haled into
Meanwhile, the B aden-Wuert-
temberg education authorities court on charges of having told
halted Zind's salary and will a half-Jew, Kurt Leiser, that
expel him if the verdict is al- "not enough Jews had been
gassed" by the Nazis, first ad-
lowed to stand.
mitted his remarks, but later
The verdict of guilty came chahged his tune to minimize
after six hours of deliberation
his anti-Semitic statements.
and a trial which lasted half a
Explaining to the court that
week. At the final session, one
student had to be ejected for. he made the remarks to restau-
ranteur Lieser, Zind asserted
an anti-Semitic remark and• it that he had meant only to imply
was obvious that the sympathy
that the statistical - estimates of
of the townspeople was with
the number of Jews killed by
the defendant.
the Nazis were incorrect.
One witness for Zind was
The presiding Judge, Dr. H.
rebuked by the court for stat- Eckert, told the attorney Zind's
ing during his testimony that gesture had come "too late."
Off enburgers thought,Zind was
Earlier, it became known
being persecuted.
that Zind forced the possibility
Demanding the one-year sen- of a new charge as a result of
tence in his summation of the an outburst at the opening of
evidence, state prosecutor Dr. the case.
H. Maegele said a conviction
A spokesman for the Baden-
was not only a personal con- Wurttemburg prosecutor said
demnation of Zind but a warn- that the authorities were con-
ing to all anti-Semites in Ger- sidering charging him with par-
many and to protect the youth ticipating in the physical mis-
of Germany from teachings by treatment of Jews during the
Nazi-minded teachers.
Nazi regime.
Heinz Galinski, chairman of
Angered at cross-questioning,
the Jewish community of Ber- Zind shouted out that he had
lin had joined the prosecu- "bashed in the skulls" of hun-
tion under a recent German dreds of Jews.
court ruling that the Jewish
The suspended high school
community was entitled to en- teacher also said the Nazis were
ter into cases of anti-Semitism justified in imprisoning Jews
because of the unique position "to keep them from betraying
of the Jews as the first and Germany."
He asserted that the Jews had
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