Word: dimitroff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criminals!" That clinched the death sentences in the minds of simple Storm Troopers. Few of them knew or cared that State Prosecutor Karl Werner, after hurling philippics for weeks at the five Reds, had ended by admitting that the State had no case against three of them, the Bulgarians Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff. Against the German prisoner, Comrade Ernst Torgler, onetime Reichstag whip of the German Communist Party, Prosecutor Werner summed up thus: "When I put everything together I come to the conclusion that Torgler, in some way or other, had an active part in the Reichstag fire. The nature...
...accused Torgler, Popoff. Dimitroff and Taneff are acquitted. The accused Lubbe, on ground of High Treason in connection with seditious arson and attempted simple arson is condemned to death and to perpetual loss of civil rights...
...demand the floor!" shouted George Dimitroff. "In the name of the world proletariat . . ." Judge Bünger cut the battling Bulgar short. "This trial," he shouted, "is finished...
Determined to drag out the Reichstag Fire Trial until the last Nazi has perjured himself, the Leipzig court has introduced a dozen more reputable Hitlerite witnesses who have duly sworn that Herren Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff were six places at once on the night of the incendiarism. Quite the most ingenious charge to date was made yesterday by a good brownshirt who asserted that Torgler had tried to get him to burn the building "so that suspicion would be placed on the Nazis." The strategical brilliance of this move would have escaped any but a Nazi. CASTOR...
While the atmosphere of the Reichstag trial is saturated with undentable tragedy, it has had its lighter moments. Some of these have been furnished by Georg Dimitroff, the Bulgarian Communist who is both defendant and lawyer in his own defence. Dimitroff has been a thorn in the red-robed sides of the presiding judges because of his unfortunate custom of interposing questions to the witnesses and assailing the peculiar methods of the court. On several occasions, after he had taken over the procedure and cross-examined Nazis into embarassing admissions, the session was hurriedly adjourned to prevent more...