Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a nervous, finger-twiddling German dermatologist, Dr. Eugene Traugott Bernstein, 45 (now exiled in Manhattan), published in International Clinics a synopsis of his little-known medical subspecialty: curing skin troubles which are of psychic origin...
...dock Prisoner Bernstein had confessed to many technical sins of omission & commission, such as can scarcely be avoided by anyone doing big business through the Fatherland's bewildering network of foreign exchange restrictions. The State had demanded a fine of $1,800,000 and imprisonment for five years. Hence...
Nazis were proud that "Bernstein got off easily," proud of his trial...
...word 'Jew' probably has not been used once during this trial," declared the court proudly. "Herr Bernstein did not stand in the dock as a Jew but simply as a businessman who had broken German...
...most heinous offense, in Nazis' eyes, was to have in effect conspired to pile up in Manhattan a secret fund of some $100.000 which otherwise would have gone partly to other U. S. creditors, partly to Germany in taxes. "This Bernstein did," snorted the judge, "for purely egotistical purposes...