The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-28
BY J. MILLER (BerIin)

ONCE April 21st last there has
y been taking place before the
Berlin Jury Court of Moabit the
trial of the accused in the Felseneck
case. The course of this trial fur
nishes a model example of how po-
itical trails are conducted in bour-
geois courts.
We give brief account of the
events which form the subject of
this trial. In the night of January
18th to 10th last, the fascist storm
attachments of the Northern sub
urbs of Berlin held a special mus
ter in Frohnau, suburb of Berlin.
There were present in all about
$50 to 200 fascist storm troops. At
half past ten the fascist troops left
the hall and marched in closed
ranks in the direction of the Rein
ichendorf. They we're escorted by
about IL police Although accord
ing to the emergency orders all
parades and professions are prohi-
bited, the police took no action
against the fascists.
The alleged destination of the
marching column was Reinichen-
dorf. They, however, made a de-
tour of four kilometers and march
ed to a colony of allotment holders
in Felseneck, where workers, mostly
unemployed and belonging to the
Communist and the social demo-
cratic party, are living in rough
huts, mostly run up by themselves.
The colony was then surrounded
by the national socialists, who
opened the attack by lombard
ment of stones against the miser-
able huts of the proletarians. With
cries of: Hail Hitler, down with
Moscow" the national socialists
stormed forwards and soon the
sound of revolver shots was heard
in addition to the crashing of
stones. The main attack was di-
rected against hut No. 20, in which
a worker named Klemke lived, who
had joined the Communist Party
few days previously. When Klemke
came out of his hut in a half-dress-
ed condition, he was shot down,
pierced by several bullets. Awaken
ed out of their sleep by the noise,
the inhabitants of the colony came
out of the hutS and defended them
selves. In the meantime, the po-
lice who had accompanied the fas-
cists, telephoned the police station
and a police patrol wagon appeared
on the scene. The national social
lists then took to their heels. Dur
ing the melee a national socialist
storm leader, named Schwarz, an
old white guardist, was stabbed to
death.
The whole of the bourgeois press,
with the exception of the national
socialist and German nationalist,
confirmed that the national socialist
murder-bandits had carried out a
deliberate and organized attack on
the workers colony in Felseneck.
During the same night the local po-
lice sent report to the police head
quarters in which the attack by the
national socialists by the colony was
represented as being an attack by
the inhabitants of the colony upon
the national socialists. After the
ascertainment of the facts this re-
port was corrected by the police
headquarters themselves. At the
same time, however, the social dem
ocratic police president Grzesinski,
Immediately had the whole colony
searched for weapons by a huge
body of police. Nothing of any
Importance was found. However, 40
national socialists and II workers
living in the colony where then ar
rested. In the course of the fur
ther investigation the number of
arrested colonists increased to %,
whilst the national socialists were
released with the exception of eight.
Even the preliminary investigation
of the matter was an open scan
dial. The Public Prosecutor, DR..
Stenig, exerted his utmost endeav-
ors to represent the workers who
had been attacked as the guilty
party and to whitewash the nation