The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-02
GOering TOO Busy"
to Testify at Trial
for Fire He Caused
Unbalanced Criminal
Is Witness Against
Communists
Especial TO The Daily Worker)

AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER,
Nov. / (Via Zurich, Switzerland -
George Dimitroff, fiery Bulgarian
Communist defendant at the Reich
stag fire trial, was dragged from the
courtroom by Storm Troopers again
today en- order Of the presiding judge.
The trial went On without him in the
Reichstag building, Berlin.
The judges action was in response
to a complaint made in this morn
ing'5 issue of the "Volkische Beo-
bachteE." the official organ of the
Na5i government, that Dimitroff was
not being handled with sufficient
severity by the court.
DimitrOff Ordered Out
Soon after the C; urt opened to-
day the judge announced that at yes
terday's session he had heard Diu1i-
troif comment on the testimony OF
Gus5Gy Labermapn, a jailbird, who
had sworn that Ernst Torgler, leader
OF t,23 Communist deputies in the
Reichatag, had offered him $4,000
marks in 1882 to set the Reichstag
on fire.
This is the climax OF the prosecu~
tons easel" was Dimitroff's exIama-
ton. First they bring in Nazi depu-
ties, end now they bring in thief"
Juds2 Buenger reprimanded Dimi-
troff, and ordered him to be silent
in future
The 'Beobachter can be satisfied
now, Mr.. judge" was Dimitroffs an
swer.
Judge Busugsr, purple with rage,
reared: Enough Eou are excluded
from the court for the day"
As the Storm Troopers were taking
him out Dimitroff reared back: And
you call this a political triail'
Goering Not to Testify
1t is. probable tnat neither Her
mann sGcering nor Paul joseph
GoebbsI5, Nazi leaders. will be called
to testify, it was announced in the
court today, despite The fact that
both are closely connected with the
events around the fire, and GoeTing
has been accused throughout the
world of being the instigator of the
fire. The court explained that they
were "too busy with the coming ref
erendun."
A journalist named Zimmerman,
employed by Alfred Hugenberg, ma
tionalist leader, was the latest of a
long series of witnesses which the
prosecution has been discovering
in the course of the trial. Nose of the
prosecutions witnesses in recent days
have been NaziS and criminals, all of
whom are supposed to have suddenly
remembered their evidence and "yol-
unteered" it to the prosecution in the
course of the trial This series of
surprise witnesses reveals the des-
perate efforts of the prosection to
manufacture new frame-up evidence
as its case continues to collapse
daily, despite the exclusion of most
Of the witnesses called for by the
defense.
Zimmerman, who Offered his evil
dence" to the prosecution only on
Sept. 3d. when the trial was well un-
der way, said he had met Torgler
shortly before the fire, and that
Torgler had said; 1.-THE atmosphere is
getting thick, Presently there will be
a beacon light which will drive the
rulers of Germany to their mouse
holes"
Rising from his chair, Torgler de-
clared with passion, Does this jour-
nalist think me a fool? Does this
petty German nationalist dream that
leader of the Communist Party
would discuss Communist Party Sc
crets with a writer for the Lokal An
zeiger?"
A criminal named Kunsack, Just
released from Jail where he had been
sent for embezzlenlent and immoral
ity, was brought to the stand to assert
that he had been present at a Com
muniSt Party conference in Duessels
dorf in 1925, where ten Communists
were present, including Van der
Lubbe, the young Dutch tool Of the
Nazis, who was arrested at the scene
of the fire. He declared that Lubbs
was solemnly introduced TO the con-
ferenre, although he would be only
l6 years old at that time.
Show Witness Mentally Abnormal
He then told fantastic story
about midnight meeting in a forest
in 1880. where Torgler stressed the
necessity of blowing up and burning
public buildings.
Aliens Sack, attorney representing
Torgler, showed by court records that
Kunsack is a mentally abnormal
criminal. He brought out a letter
which Kunsack had addressed to tpe
court, begging to have his sentence
cancelled. in return for giving this ey-
idence, and at the same time asking
for witness fees.