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...third and most probable course is to switch the case to another charge: that of being a Communist. By the present Nazi laws, membership in that party can be construed as high treason; and on that basis Torgler, Dmitroff, and Ten-off may be returned to their prison camps for life. To say that this is postfacto and the sentence unjust, may be right but it will not affect the court's decision. The Nazis don't dare to back down; and the alternatives are, as Pollux termed it succinctly, disgusting. Castor
...fiery George Dimitroff, for 23 years leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was articulate. Trials, even death sentences, are no novelty for him. In 1924, after the horrible bombing of Sofia's Sveti Krai Cathedral in which more than 200 people were killed, he was accused of high treason, condemned to death in absentia. Knowing there was little hope from this Nazi court, Communist Dimitroff blustered and roared his way through the trial while timorous, law-abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words. Nothing seemed to annoy bullet-headed Presiding Judge Blanker like the defend...
...central hall of Berlin's Reichstag Building were gutted by a mysterious fire last winter (TIME, March 6). Ostensibly to fix the blame the Nazi Government scheduled for this week a great trial before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig of five men charged with arson and high treason. Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being deflated into an anticlimax...
Based partly upon the case of a Huguenot. Jean Galas, who was executed for murder in Toulouse and partly upon the case of an army officer who was beheaded for treason. Voltaire does not adhere to history at the expense of drama. George Arliss, who likes to be a kind, romantic, dignified old gentleman, makes Voltaire more whimsical than embittered but he gives a dextrously intelligent performance...
...science, and play with incendiary torches around a powder keg? No! A thousand times no! It must be the task of the entire civilized world to paralyze these adventurers. That this may not exclude a bloody war is self evident!" This last sentence the Nazi Press called a treasonable incitement to other nations to make war on Germany. In Prague broken old Philipp Scheidemann declared that he had never written treason. He blamed his translator. He appealed to high heaven but he failed to get his five completely innocent relatives out of their barbed-wire prison camp...