British Sentence on German Communist Criticised
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 11. Attacking the British occupation authorities in Germany for sentencing Max Reimann, the German Communist leader, to three months' imprisonment for calling his political opponents “quislings,” the Manchester Guardian said that Reimann’s trial and sentence seemed to indicate the Brit ish authorities in Dusseldorf knew less about Reimann and less about Germany than the Germans did themselves. “The Germans know that his martyr's crown is undeserved but the British have insisted on him wearing it. It might have been supposed that Hitler had proved once and for all the decisive value of political martyrdom in Germany. There can be no real need to prove it again by prosecuting Reimann.
“In sentencing him the British authorities have done much to restore the failing fortunes of the Communist Party and little to sustain their own prestige.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22869, 12 February 1949, Page 5
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