REICH FIRE TRIAL
PRISONER’S OUTBURST.
(United Press A isociation— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 1.35 p.m.)
BERLIN, November 23
Shedding his erstwhile lethargy Ya n der Lubbe amazed the court at the fire trial by making a long speech demanding to know when sentence would be -announced, so that the others may get out of prison- “I fired the Reichstag. The others had nothing whatever to do with it.”
The president s aid : “You have only got to reveal your accomplices to ensure a- speedy end of the trial.”
When the President declared h ; 6 disbelief that Van de a - Lubbe could have carried out the fire .alonfe, Van der Lubbe persisted that Dimitroff, Ta n eff, Pop off and Torgler were not concerned with if. “I want twenty years sentence or death. [I cannot stand this trial any .-pager. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1933, Page 6
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