REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 7

REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL

BERLIN, October 26. The evidence of Karwahne, an ex« Communist and now a Nazi deputy, provided a stormy session during th« Reichstag firo "trial. Karwahne is regarded as one of the prosecution's star witnesses., Karwahuo said he and two other deputies were walking in the Beichstag near the Communist rooms when they; met Torgler and Lubbe together. Saeh's cross-examining showed that Karwahne was repeatedly self-contra-dictory. He remembered many mor» details than in his initial examination. Karwahne was perturbed when Torgler asked whether he had led an attack on a Communist headquarters in Hanover, and whether he had supplied antiConununist material to tho newspapers after he joined the Nazis. The President continually interrupted to shield Karwahne, who evaded tho examination, and finally took refuge in a refusal to answer, eveu when the Pre« sidont admitted the question. Dimitroff asked Karwahne many ques« tioiis which tho President disallowed. Benno Zitnmering, an Alsatian Jew,' lias been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for. publicly charging the Nazis wit li setting lire to the Reichstag.