Victim of Nazis cleared
NZPA-Reuter West Berlin A Dutch Communist executed by Hitler’s Nazis nearly half a century ago on [charges of burning down the Reichstag (Parliament) was (exonerated this week by a (West Berlin Court. i Marinus van der Lubbe 4was cleared in an Appeal JCdurt yesterday on the [ground of a serious mis--4 carriage of justice during his j 4‘wo-month trial which endedi [in December, 1933, the; [director of. public : prose-i cutions <Mr Viktor Weber); said after the verdict. Van der Lubbe was executed on January 10, 1934. The verdict quashed the judgment of another West Berlin court in 1967 which ; found him guilty, on arson ■ charges. Robert Kempner, United States chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg -war trials, had called for a revision of the criginal judgment on ber half of- the defendant’s (brother, John. -■ ’• .- Mr Kempner said that van [der Lubbe had been con.ldemned solely on perjured by the Nazi lead’s ers, Hermann Goering and Ijosef Goebbels.
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