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...Kohn, a railway worker who had been discharged from the Wehrmacht, sprang from the crowd and beat the prostrate man with a club. Matthias Gierens, a small, hard-faced crane operator in whose family there had been insanity, crushed the flyer's skull with a heavy hammer. Matthias Krein, a home guardsman, watched and did nothing to stop the murder...
Last week Kohn, Gierens and Krein went to trial (Back had not been found). Their counsel was a German lawyer designated by the commission.* He pleaded that Kohn's nerves had been shattered in the war and that he had fallen for Goebbels' propaganda. Gierens, said the lawyer, was insane; Krein had merely followed Back's orders...