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...politics. Naturally I should like to be able to defend my country's democratic ideals, especially now in regard to the Jewish question. The reason why I cannot is adequately illustrated by a recent article in TIME (Dec. 5): A young man, not a whole lot older than Grynszpan, was said to have committed a crime. The only witness was an elderly lady-the very lady whose life and property were involved-but that was enough. No Dorothy Thompson appealed dramatically for funds to save his life; no corps of top-notch lawyers leaped to his defense; America...
Authentic reports seeping through the Nazi censorship gave many angles of what is happening to some Jews in concentration camps. At one camp they are compelled to sign the following statement: "As a Jew, I regard myself as a guilty accomplice of the Jew Grynszpan, who murdered Third Secretary vom Rath." Each morning they were put through the following catechism, varied according to their profession or trade: "What were you?" Answer: "I was a doctor." Reply of catechist: "No, you were a quack and thief." The same question and answer were repeated until the prisoner answers: "I was a quack...
With over $30,000 collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...
...Grynszpan was being held under two charges: the capital crime of murdering the German Embassy Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath; and the technical but grave charge of having remained in France in defiance of an order issued to expel him from the country as an undesirable alien some time before his crime. Previous Paris dispatches saying he would likely be guillotined for the murder were superseded by guesses that he would be let off without hard labor...
Meantime, Nazis themselves were worried. Their problem was how to collect the 1,000,000,000-mark fine for the killing in Paris of Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan. Some 9,000,000 marks was got out of rich Berlin Jews, but there was some question that the raising of the other 991,000,000 might cause such widespread liquidations of assets that the delicate German economy would be jeopardized...