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...Communist pamphlets. Last July New York City Communists rioted onto the German liner Bremen in protest against Simpson's jailing, while his father mournfully asserted that Son Lawrence was no Communist. Last fortnight the Ministry of Justice transferred Seaman Simpson from camp to Berlin's famed Moabit Prison, changed the charge against him to trying to smuggle marks out of Germany, announced that he will go on secret trial before the so-called People's Court next week...
Consul Geist was told that Prisoner Roiderer had been brought from Munich to Berlin's famed prison for political offenders, Moabit. Down to Moabit went Consul Geist. "No such prisoner is here," he was told. After calling on various Nazi officials, the U. S. Consul was finally told, "It is very doubtful whether Richard Roiderer has been brought to Moabit...
Other squads went to police headquarters and arrested Police President Albert Grzenski and his chief assistants, Vice President Bernhard Weiss and Major Heimannsberg, and marched them off to Moabit Jail charged with conspiring against the new government. They were later released. Communist headquarters were raided, a half-dozen newspapers were temporarily suppressed...