Word: dimitroff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reichstag building (TIME, March 26, et seq.). Center of interest was still the dull-witted Dutch arson boy, Marinus van der Lubbe (only defendant to be kept manacled and in prison garb in the court room). Chief pain to the prosecution was still the pugnacious Bulgarian Communist Leader George Dimitroff...
Shrewd, fiery Defendant Dimitroff tried to trap the dull Dutchman into admitting that he acted as a Nazi tool...
...Lubbe!" cried Dimitroff. "Why don't you speak? Are you bowed with a sense of guilt because of the crime you have committed against the proletariat? . . . Who advised you, who talked to you before you set these fires? With whom did you discuss them and who were your associates...
...have been in jail for seven months, five of which I was chained day and night and compelled to live in en forced silence." Dim-witted Defendant van der Lubbe could scarcely speak German. Two of the Bulgarian defend ants could speak none at all. But 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...