[<> Bern Trial - Court Session Protocols]

[<> Bern Trial - Court Session Protocols] 

[<> Bern Trial - Court Session Protocols] 

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The Bern Trial. Protocol of the Session in the morning of May 11, 1935. Plea of Matti, the lawyer of the United Jewish Communities of Switzerland. Matti decribes the intrusion of fascistic ideas due to the NS revolution in Germany. He explains that the prosecution has to do with the spreading of antisemitism in Switzerland and emphazises the importance of declaring the protocols a fabrication. Then he explains in legal terms the prosecution against Schnell. He then denounces the reasoning of Fleischhauer about the inner truth of the protocols. Matti explains that the defence failed in bringing evidence for the veracity of the protocols. He then depicts the protocols as published by Fritsch and disturbed by Schnell and Fischer as trashy literature. Matti describes the danger of not confronting antisemitism in Switzerland and urges the court to take this into consideration. Plea of Ursprung. Ursprung tells the court that it has to proof that the accused knew that they were disturbing obscenity and if it was obscenity at all. He dismisses that Meyer and Haller were not responsible for the distribution at all. He states that they are nationalists but not Jew haters but states then that the Jews have to much influence in Switzerland. He argues that it is unimportant if the protocols are a fabrication because the accused didn't consider it a fabrication and can therefor not be accused for disturbing a fabrication. He describes his clients as victims of an ideological prosecution and demands that they are acquitted and compensated.