Word: volksgerricht
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Last week the trial of a German-born Clevelander, too simple to keep his mouth shut or his pencil still in Naziland, furnished the world its first glimpse of the super-secret workings of Adolf Hitler's dread Volksgerricht or "People's Court." "As I stand at my window, seeing marching columns of Storm Troops," jotted down Simple Richard Roiderer in a notebook before his arrest, "I think to myself what slaves they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed...
...high treason" to the Fatherland. Efforts by the U. S. Consul General to have access to Roiderer were met with frog-faced assertions that the German Ministry of Justice itself did not know where he was. Realmleader Hitler has set above the German Supreme Court his own death-dealing Volksgerricht, and occasionally someone's head gets chopped off before the fact is known to other than a few Nazi bigwigs. That the head of Simple Richard Roiderer was still upon his shoulders, after ten months in the fog of Nazidom's New Justice, was recently ascertained...
Newshawks noticed first that no court stenographer was present-a fact tending to confirm reports that Nazi jurists, knowing that their proceedings are sometimes indefensible, take care to leave no record of the Volksgerricht's proceedings lest a future German Government be moved to hang the jurists of today...
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