Papers re Maritz Trial, South Africa; papers re prosecution of Einar Aberg trial, Sweden

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This microfilm collection contains papers relating to two separate trials.

The first concerns the trial of Salomon Gerhardus Maritz, who went on trial in his native South Africa for the sale and distribution of his anti-Semitic book, My Life and Struggle, in 1939.

The second concerns the prosecution of Einar Åberg, a Swedish anti-semite, who was convicted on a number of occasions under the Sweish constitution's 'Press Law' for distributing racist and anti-Semitic publications. He treated the proceedings with contempt and even when convicted his literature was being distributed outside the court room

Report and newspaper cuttings re the trial of Salomon Maritz, South Africa, 1939
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Correspondence between the Wiener Library and various organisations mainly concerning the reliability and authenticity of documents to be used in Einar Åberg's trial, 1947.