Word: eckert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awaited him in Egypt. After three days of testimony and six hours of deliberation, the three judges and two lay jurors brought in their verdict: guilty; one year in jail. "Zind's words rip open the old, barely healed wounds of the German people," declared Presiding Judge Johannes Eckert. "What thousands have tried to repair, one man with such words can destroy." But as Ludwig Zind walked out of the courtroom, where the audience had been plainly on his side, women wept at the verdict and men reached out to shake his hand...
Backed by the gay, mobile scenery of W. and J. Eckert, dressed in appropriate costumes by Alvin Colt, and directed by the skilled Mr. Kidd, the actors manage, all in all, to keep up the flavor and reputation of Al Capp's brainless but enjoyable world...