PECULIAR TO GERMANY
“RACE POLLUTION" LAW BRITISH SUBJECT SENTENCED. Pres* 'AHodation—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 10. The Berlin correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says an important issue, whether a British subject may be properly tried in Germany for “ race pollution,” which is unknown to the laws of other countries, is raised by the trial at Hamburg of Harry Herz, a German-born Jew, who was granted British nationality m 1907. He was sentenced to 25 months in gaol and fined £1,650 for offences against German currency regulations and race pollution, but it is not revealed which portion of the sentence was attributable to the respective charges. A German girl who shared his apartment was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment and fined £B. Bank notes valued at £I,OOO were found in her hatbox and confiscated.
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Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 9
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132PECULIAR TO GERMANY Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 9
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