The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Fascist Judge Aims
to WhiteWaSh Hitler
in ReichStag Arson
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The Fascist Judge Buenger then
began to deliver his summation, a
speech which was a complete white
wash of the obvious Fascist guilt, a
hymn of praise for the Hitler gov
eminent, and denunciation of the
German Communist Party.
The note struck insistently by the
Fascist Judge, while forced to deliver
the verdicts in favor of the Commu-
mist defendants, was his explicit opin-
ion that, despite all the evidence, the
Communist Party was the real in
cendiary.
OF the greatest significance were
his repeated utteranceS that very
openly pave the way for another
trial against the Communists on the
ground of treason" He said, for
example:
'The Communist Party in Ger
many had been working for a long
time to gain power and awaited a
favorable chain Of circumstances.
The court takes the view that Van
der Lubbe was Communist, and
Is still Communist. Decidedly,
this Reichstag fire was not an act of
individual terror, but an act of mass
terror which was designed to be the
overture to general strike and a
revolutionary movement"
Continuing his TRADE against the
Communist Party, in which he took
over all the discredited statements
Of the Prosecution, the fascist Judge
continued:
Apparently, the Communists
wanted to create a visible beacon,
and make an appeal to the Social
Democratic workers"
He then quoted from some docu-
ments of the Communist Interna-
tional and the Communist Party, tax
ing particular pains to state that he
considered this 'the most importan.
part of the trial"
Thus, the way for the execution
Of the Communist defendants on
the grounds of treason" after the
Reichstag fire frame-up has broken
the fascist Leipzig court has ap-
parently been instructed to begin
the emphasis on this note. The
judges summation actually paves
the way for second murder frame
up, on the ground of treason"
The summing up of the fascist
Judge Buenger was a miserable at
tempt TO save the face of the court
despite the acquittal forced upon il
by the protest movement throughout
the world and the courageous stanc
of the defendants.
Nazis Guilty
This forced acquittal has only one
political meaning-it is a complete
demonstration that the real incen.
diaries are the faScists themselves
Judge Buenger's conclusion gave the
catchword for new proceeding.
against the defendants. Although thu
court came to the same conclusion a.
the counter trial in London and this
conclusions Of the Brown Book, The
Fascist Judge Buenger denounced
these conclusions as ISLANDERS agains
the fascists.
Buenger lied deliberately when h
stated that Lubbe is a Communist
He lied when he said that Goerinl
had no staff of Nazi sentries. He lice
when he said that the subterranear
passage of the Reichstag played M
part in the arson. He lied when HI
said that the fire brigade Responded
to the alarm quickly. He lied wher
he said that Van der Lubbe had NJ
contact with the Nazis.
On the contrary, the trial proved BY
the evidence of sworn witnesses tina
the fire brigade was deliberately hal,
an hour late, that Van der Lubbs
himself declared that he was in thu
company of Nazis, that Goering,
ianitor heard footsteps In the sub
terranean passage during the night
that the witness Abermann saw Goer
ing with six staff sentries from tn,
Storm Troopers.
The fascist Judge Buenger deliber
ately ignored the entire conclusion
Of the trial when he concluded tina
the Communists were undoubtedly tn,
instigators of the crime.
Victory for Workingclass
The Leipzig verdict is an adnlis,
sion that the case of the Nazi pro.
secution has collapsed. 1t shows tn,
tremendous setback and exposure O.
German fascism, and simultaneou,
victory for the German and interna.
tional working class.
The final victory In this case car
only come if the savage lynch inten-
tons of German fascism are com.
pletely blocked, and the four defend.
ants in the Leipzig trial are safely
conveyed over the frontiers OF fascist
Germany.