CHARGES BY NAZIS.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST BISHOP. STATEMENTS IN A LETTER. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. BERLIN, June 26. Charges of high treason were levelled against Dr. Ludwig Sebastian, (Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer, aged 75, when he appeared as a witness at the trial at Frankenthal of a priest charged with ‘‘malicious talk.”
A Nazi leader asked the Bishop if he had written letters about the Internal conditions in Germany to a foreign Power.
The Bishop refused to reply, whereupon the Nazi flourished a photostat copy of a letter mentioning quarrels between Brown Shirts and Steel Helmets. He alleged that the' letter was written in 1935 by the Bishop to Cardinal Pacelli. The Prosecutor remarked: “Practically treasonable.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20231, 28 June 1937, Page 7
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