Otto Hoffmeistr, a former actor and now a Nazi sotrm trooper, was today sentenced to serve eight months in jall for having insulted, while drunk, three Turkish visitors in Berlin by calling them “Jews.”
The public prosecutor declared that Hoffmeister soiled his brown storm troopers uniform by “unheard-of lack of discipline.”
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