The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

nlSCS, we're sentenced ny TIE
same court to ten years in
prison each for 'inciting the incen-
diarism."
Seventy mine Communists were ar
rested in Westphalia today, charged
with high treason"
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The sentence
of death reported from Berlin today
is but one more in a series of execu-
tons of workers and workers lead
ers throughout Germany, in a new
and silarpened wave of Nazi terror.
AL workers and working class or
CARNATIONS must build a mighty
protest movement against the Hitler
terror, it was pointed out here today:
The recent arrest OF $500 Communist
workers in Germany, the treason
trial that more than 1000 German
workers face, the frame-up proceed
ings of Torgler, Dimitroff, PopoH and
taneff at Leipzig, make immediate
protest action necessary.
Call mass meetings OF protest, send
letters and kilograms to all German
consulates and to the German en-
bassy at Washington!
Especial to the Daily Worker)
AT THE GERMAN BOR-
DER, Dec. 1. (via Zurich,
Switzerland) A group of wit
nesses brought from concen-
tration camps by the Nazis to
testify against the four Communist
defendants at the ReichStag fire trial
George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler,
Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff-
were turned into witnesses against
the Nazis under the hammer blows
OF Dimitroff's and Torgler's brilliant
questioning.
The 48th trial day at Leipzig
also Witnessed the courts refusal
to call on Ernst Thaelmann, I'M
prisoned leader of the German
Communist Party, to give his tes-
timony in court. Diniitroff several
days ago had demanded that
Thaelmann be called to testify ON
the political situation that existed
in Germany last February.
The court at the same time an
nounced that it would not call on
Schleicher, Bruening, Papen or HUI
genberg.
Torgler Discredits Testimony
At the very beginning of the Ses-
sion Torgler demanded the reading
of police reports from various dis
tricts in Germany, stating that no
signs of an armed uprising ex-
listed before or after the Reichstag
fire. Such reports were read, from
Kiel, Brunswick, Hessen and ether
districts. Dimitroff protested against
the reading of so-called "confiden-
tial"-actually spies-reports on at
tacks allegedly planned against the
Nazis, demanding that the testi-
..mony come from the secretaries of
Ehe towns named in these reports,
Even il these secretaries are now
held for high treason.
Then came the nine witnesses
from the concentration camps and
other places of preventive Gus
tody." The prosecution, obviously
seeking exemplary models from the
camps where, they claim, multi
tudes OF Communists have been
converted to Hitler succeeded only
in producing miserable examples.
Armed, But Not for Uprising.
One of these witnesses, Kalten-
berg, allegedly former Communist
Party sub-district leader, stated that
he had been on "the wrong path.
In reply to one Of the judges ques-
tions, he claimed that many weapons
had been bought last Spring, but only
for the purpose of preventing a storm
troop march on Berlin. Although
Dimitroff repeatedly attempted to
question Kaltenbach, the prosecutor
did not allow his questions.
But Torgler arose to question the
Nazi witnesses and transformed
even the renegade Kaltenbach from
a witness for the prosecution to
witness for the defense. Under Tor
gler's questioning Kaltenherg was
forced to admit that the Commu-
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