REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL
PLEAS MADE FOR PRISONERS.
DECISION AT END OF WEEK.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Leipzig, Dec. 16. Herr Sachs in a speech lasting four and a half hours urged Torgler’s acquittal. Dimitroff declared the court should recognise the innocence of Popoff, Taneff, Torgler and himself and regard van der Lubbe as the misused tool of enemies of the workers.
The sentences will be promulgated on December 23.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1933, Page 4
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