CRIPPLES HARRIED BY GERMAN RED-BAITERS from 2 correspondent
4 man and his wife reduced to physical wrecks by the Nazis have been put on trial in West Germany for activities "endangering the state." Under Hitler they both spent years in concentration camps for opposing the Nazis. When rescued by the Society of Friends in 1938 and brought to Gngland, Herr Fladung was crippled, almost blind and partly deaf. Herr Fladung (65) and his wife Klara (61) are charged together with Greta Hoffman (56) with "advancing the unconstitutional activities of the illegal Communist Party through publishing and other orgamising
It has been left to friends in Britain, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Sir Lewis Casson to protest on their behalf. ‘When the trial opened, Herr Fladung was declared physically unfit to stand. His wife had a heart attack after her first appearance in court and a doctor's report is awaited. Getting little publicity in Germany, this persecution shows that capitalism has not changed its nature even at the moment when the bourgeoisie is trying to purge itself of guilt at the Frankfurt mass trial, Afraid to let people publish their opinions, German capitalism descends to this petty and sordid persecution of a couple in the last years or months of their lives,