Czernowitzers…
May Day 1932, Czernowitz police and secret service authotities started to conduct mass arrests of so-called "communists". But who were in fact those "communists"? They were teenagers, students, coming from a good home, in the majority of cases a Jewish one, opposing against the virulent anti-Semitism and awaking fascism in Romania during the Interwar period.
Which serious crimes did they commit? They gathered in "conspirative apartments" [owned by their parents], argued for many hours and at the end of the day agreed on the text for a pamphlet. Then the flyers were typed, so the typewriters were arrested = confiscated by the police too.
What happend to our teenager communists, while they were imprisoned? They were humiliated, knocked unconscious and tortured by police officers.
What happened to the torturers? Nothing!
That's a lie or exaggerated? I'm afraid not, as you may learn from "today's" [i.e. 03.12.1932/2010] edition of "Der Tag - The Day" (http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.com/), covering on p. 3 three communists trials, as released to our Ehpes.com Blog:
http://ehpes.com/blog1/2010/12/02/teenager-communists-and-the-torture/
T H E D E F E N D A N T S:
Natan Melzer, Michel Weißmann, Jos. Salamander, Litman Färber, Mordko Weißberg, Alexander Ghelmann, Walter Roll, Demostenes Hoch, Dagobert Herzig, N. Engel, J. Kurzberg, Moritz Scherzer, J. Teller, Abraham Weißmann, J. Favinschi, J. Griseanu, Gisela Linker, Mart. Krasnopolski, A. Gluzmann, Moses Weißberg, H. Gabe, E. Blickstein, E. Klein, B. Locker, G. Pochmarski, Alexander Ghelmann.
T H E D E F E N S E L A W Y E R S:
Nicu Adelstein, Jakob Bitter, Dr. Siegfried Hitzig, Dr. Louis Hausknecht, Aron Kupferschmied, Dr. Friedrich Melzer, Prof. Radulescu, Siegfried Rosenzweig, Schapirin.
T H E T O R T U R E R S:
Moritz Rottenberg, Josef Tiron, Emanuel Hartl, Ioan Onciul.
I'll come back with more details on this sensational trail and the response of Heinrich Goldmann, the editor in charge of "Der Tag - The Day".
Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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