The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-27

of the Nazis, who has admitted his
part in the fire, and two OF the Cone
munist defendants, Ernst Torgler and
Blagoi Popoff.
Earlier in the session, as reported
yesterday, Karwahne had testified to
seeing Torgler and van der Lubbe to-
gether in the Reichstag building 81
the day of the fire.
He was unable to describe van der
Lubbe's clothing, and it was brought
out that he had seen van der Lubbe.
without coat and shirt, soon after
he had been arrested at the scene Of
the fire.
COntradictS Own Testimony.
Van der Lubbe, confronted with
Karwahne, laughed and declared he
had never seen him.
Judge Buenger was forced to inter
vene and mention that all previous
testimony showed that van der Lubbe
was not in the Reichstag building on
the afternoon before the fire.
A Reichstag employee, Annehse
Baumgart, swore that at the time
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with Torgler, Theodor Neubauer,
Communist deputy had been there.
Neubauer, who was brought to the
court from concentration camp, was
shown to have some resemblance to
van der Lubbe.
Alfons Sack, Torgler's attorney,
pointed out that while KarWahne had
said earlier at this hearing that Torg.
Ter had been seen accompanied by
crirninal-1ooking type, he had said
nothing of the kind at the first poIics
examination.
Karwahne denied having said sszy-
thing about a criminal type" until
the stenographic record OF his Sestt-
mony was read, when he ives forced
to admit he had said it.
Tcrgier Exposes Witness As 1
Provocatem.
Torgler took the stand and egs
posed Karwahne's history as q pros
vocateur in the Communist Party unz
til he was expelled in 1925. He de-
clared that Karwahne had taken part
in an attack on Communist head
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formation about the Communist Party
to reactionary papers.
The court and prosecution gtroVe
to save Karwahne from exposure by
declaring that the matter was in
admissible, since it referred to events
in the distant past, but Sack de-
clared that the court had admitted
evidence regarding the instruction
in Bulgaria in 1923.
The court took q recess to discuss
the question, then ruled that Torgler
could ask Karwahne about these
facts. Karwahne virtually admitted
Torgler's charges by refusing to an
swer whether they were true or not.
George Dimitroff, Bulgarian Com
nunist defendant, asked Karwahne
If 1t was not true that the Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter
national had expelled the whole KATE
group to which he belonged because
OF it's anarchist Vaccinations. Kar-
wahne declared that the group had
withdrawn from the Comintern.
which is q lie. Din1itroff was forbid
den to ask him any further questions,
Second Witness Contradicts Self
Kurt Frey, the other Nazt deputy,
said that he accompanied KarWahne
on the tour of the Reichstag when
they saw Torgler. He said he did
not recognize the first person they
saw with Torgler, but that the sec
ond WAS Ponoff.
At this preliminary examination,
however, he said the exact opposite
that he recognized Van der Lubbe,
but not Popoff.
He said Popoh wore hat. Asked
if he wore spectacles, he said no.
Popof, however, always wears Sped
tacles. The only time he did not
wear them was when Frey confronted
him after Popoff's arrest.
The scene Frey said he saw was
reconstructed at the spot where he
said it occurred. The time OF day
and the light was the same, and 1t
was clear to every one that a man
with hat over his eyes could not
be identified in the way Frey said
The court adjourned until Friday.