The daily worker., 1925-07-28
PrOue Guilt of Three German Fuscists

Fink explains that it did not occur to
him that this was necessary. With
regard to the sworn declarations OF
the German professiors which almost
all arrived after the close of the pro
ceedings, it was not possible for the
court to consider them as decisive for
the reason alone that in the best case
these professors made statements re.
ferring to matters of which they could
not be aware, for instance, wether the
secret organization consul maintained
certain connections with any even the
most legal organization OF with any Of
its members, as for instance the stu.
dent organization or Student Aid
service.
Confession Confirmed.
Fourth question: What produced the
confession of Dittmar? Did the court
find no elements which lessened the
worth of this confession and the de-
cisions of the court?
Answer: The confession of Dittmar
is the result of psychological and po-
litical turn which took place under the
influence of a basic revision of his
previous life. The court had no rea-
son to doubt the honesty of his con-
fession. The statements of Dittmar
were what is more, strengthened by
those of Kindermann and Wolscht and
Baumann.
Plan to Undermine Soviet.
Fifth question: Is there reason to
regard the accused as troup of the
international reaction? Is not the
youth of the accused and their OBJ
vious adventurous temperaments in
contradiction to the extensive plans
for the undermining of the Soviet
power?
Answer: AS far as the member
ship of the accused to the organiza-
ton consul was proved before the
court, their youth ceases to play an
important role. Just this youth and
the circumstance that the accused
presented themselves as students was
a cover for the criminal intent with
which they came to Russia. AS far
as the adventurous character is con-
cerned, this is least of all proved of
Wolscht and Dittmar
From the fact that the whole ended
with an adventure, it by no means fol-
lows that it must necessarily have
done so. If the arrests had not taken
place, the most tragic results might
have followed. The ill success of the
so-called expedition is due to the fact
that the participants in it considered
us to be more naive than we are, and
believed themselves able to deceive
us.
Germany Must Know Facts.
Sixth question: Will not the SEN
tence have a strong effect upon pub
lie opinion in Germany, as this can
be already recognized from the prev
ious press opinions?
This question is difficult to answer.
AS far as the bourgeois press is con
cerned, it has in any case always prev
iously used the slightest thing in or
der to malign us. 1t is sufficient to
mention the Leipzig Cheka Process
which represented direct frame-up
to compromise the Soviet government
and the Soviet embassy, or the story
of the provocatuer Bozenhardt. Nat
urally, such facts and such an atti-
tude harm above all the interests Of
the German people
If the Soviet press took up the same
attitude towards the German, the rela-
tions between the two countries could
be adversely affected In the last few
years so many feraful sentences have
been passed upon Communists, that
the firm sentence upon the three fas-
cists simply pales before them. Nat
urally, German public opinion must be
provided with the exhaustive and
documentary material upon the Mos
COW consul process. The lies and
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