Jewish race defilers therefore will have to take care in the future. They do not risk their freedom only but also their heads and necks. The patience of the German people has become exhausted. It does not treat Jewish public parasites more tenderly any longer than the public parasites from our own ranks. In this sense the Katzenberger trial has received a significance which goes far beyond the Nuernberg courtroom.
Everything for the German people (p. 3, col. 4)
The world Jewry will discover that Germany knows how to defend herself with the severe measures against Jewish race defilers. Now it will again write using the old long-tried tactics, about the “medieval conditions” prevailing in Germany. It will again glorify those “poor, deplorable, harmless Jews,” who become the victims of National Socialist legislation. It will give vent to spite and malice toward Germany.
- TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-154
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 152
OPINION AND SENTENCE OF THE NUERNBERG SPECIAL COURT IN THE KATZENBERGER CASE, 13 MARCH 1942, IN WHICH DEFENDANT ROTHAUG WAS PRESIDING JUDGE[356]
Sg No. 351/41
Verdict
In the name of the German People
The Special Court for the district of the Court of Appeal in Nuernberg with the District Court Nuernberg-Fuerth in the proceedings against Katzenberger, Lehmann Israel, commonly called Leo, merchant and head of the Jewish religious community in Nuernberg, and Seiler, Irene, owner of a photographic shop in Nuernberg, both at present in arrest pending trial the charges being racial pollution and perjury—in public session of 13 March 1942, in the presence of—
The President—Dr. Rothaug, Senior Judge of the District Court;