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Electronic text and image data Jerusalem Yad Vashem 2015
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The file contains documents that are connected to the Loosli/Leonhardt trial that was a sue for libel of Leonhardt regarding a claim of Loosli that the Swiss National Fronts are agents of the 3rd Reich.The file contains an unsigned a letter to Fleischhauer sent from Bern on 15.08.35 confirming a meeting. Letter in French of Chedel to Lifschitz from 25.02.38. Letters in French from Henri Chedel to the Lifshitz brothers from 24.05.38 and 07.06.38. and 30.04.38 and 21.03.38 and and 17.03.38 and 11.03.38 and 12.03.38 and 15.03.38 and letters from J.D. Lifschitz to Chedel from 03.03.38 and 17.03.38 and 18.03.38 and 31.05.38. Letter of Lifshitz to Chedel from 13.04.38. All the letters are about copies that Lifschitz wants from Chedel for the Loosli/Leionhardt trial and the payment for it. The letter from 31.05.38 contains a list of the copies. Letters from the"L'Homme De Droit" organization to Toedtli from 1936 in French. Letter from Loosli to his lawyer Lifschitz from 29.06.37 refering to the Loosli/Leonhardt case and listing some evidence material in Loosli's possesion. Letter from Lifschitz to Loosli that states that there's a photograph of Toedtli's mailbox that reveals the connections to the Weltdienst in Erfurt and the Swiss Press Correspondence. Letter of Lifschitz to Loosli from 18.10.35 about the handling of the Loosli/Leonhardt trial. Letter of Lifschitz to lawyer Ludwig Frank in Zurich concerning the Loosli/Leonhardt trial. Letters of Lifschitz to the court in Bern from 13.01.36 and from 17.02.36 concerning the Loosli/Leonhardt trial. Letter of Lifschitz to lawyer Schmuziger in Zurich from 16.06.37 concerning the Loosli/Leonhardt trial. Answer of Schmuziger from 18.06.37. Letters from the lawyers Farbstein and Frank to Lifschitz from 20.09.35 and 05.11.35 concerning files about the bomb attack trial against the Front that reveals connections between the Front and the NSDAP. Handwritten notes concerning the Loosli/Leonhardt trial from 23.05.37. Note about the confiscation of a secret archive at Toedtli and the arrest of Cooper and de Pottere. The archive consists of two main parts. The secret conversation with Fleischhauer and the correspondence with the All Russian Fascists. Long response of Lifschitz to statements of Ruef regarding 1) an archive confiscated at Toedtli and the photocopying and publication of it 2) the connection of the Loosli/Leonhardt trial and the Bern trial 3) the statement of Loosli about the Front. The statement further contains lengthly remarks about the connections between the Front and the Weltdienst . 2 copies of articles from 05.11.37 and 03.12.37 published in a French journal. The articles in French are about Freemasons in Switzerland. Petition of lawyer Dr. Tobler from 28.05.37 denying that the Frontists are spying. Protocol of a meeting with Lifshitz from 07.04.1938 were the line of defense in the Loosli/Leonhardt case is outlined in 16 paragraphs. Most of them refer to evidence of money transactions from Germany to the Front. Transcription of a letter of Lifschitz to judge Peter from 24.05.37 with explanations to delivered materials of evidence and a letter of Lifschitz to Peters about the same issue from 30.06.37. Letter of Lifschitz to a Swiss newspaper demanding the correction of an article. Letter to the court in Bern from 25.01.36 about the connections between Toedtli and Fleischhauer. The file also contains a handwritten protocol from the Loosli/Leonhardt trial from August 1937 written on the back of unrelated papers. Stements of Loosli and Leonhardt regarding the accusations. 36 pages of the November edition of the"Schweizer Beobachte" with a long article about a planed ban of freemasonry that refers to the accusations of the financial transactions from Germany to the Swiss Front.
[Loosli file]