EAST GERMAN RIOTING
PRISON TERMS FOR MEN INVOLVED
LONDON, July 21. The “Daily Express” says that Eastern Germany’s “hanging judge,” Mr Hilde Benjamin, staged his first big “show trial” as new Minister of Justice yesterday, when he appointed a People’s Court to try 16 persons for their part in the revolt on June 17. The story revealed in the evidence against them showed that police headquarters were burned, Communist Party leaders were beaten, and police were disarmed before Russian tanks took control. The Court sent one of the accused to prison for life, and sentenced 15 others to prison terms ranging from six months to 13 years. The principal defendant was Lothar Markowitz, a 37-year-old photographer, sentenced to life imprisonment, “the chief rifig-leader” of the group accused of having attacked the local headquarters of the Socialist Unity (Communist) -Party at Niesky, near Dresden. The accused were alleged to have helped to demolish the building and to plunder the offices of the security police, and to have beaten up the Communist officials in them. ,
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27098, 22 July 1953, Page 9
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