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Into court at Cologne last week was dragged one of the original Coblenz Nazis, strong-minded, sharp-tongued Frau Lily Schultz. It appeared that this 40-year-old boardinghouse keeper had loudly disparaged Cologne's District Storm Troop Leader as "a young upstart!" Promptly convicted, Original Nazi Lily was sentenced to eight months in jail.

Same day Stenographer Elsa Sittell, arrested for saying "You can bet your life Hitler is no Aryan!" (TIME, Jan. 7) was released without trial after ten days in jail, apparently because she is a U. S. citizen and the German Government feared the publicity she could give them. Correspondents waiting outside a...

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