East Berlin Court Jails West German Mayor
An East Berlin court on Wednesday convicted a West German mayor of organizing a “subversive action” and sentenced him to six years in prison, the news agency ADN reported.
Ernst-Hubert Michaelis, mayor of the Hessian town of Arolson, was arrested Dec. 14 at the Marienborn checkpoint on the edge of West Berlin, apparently in connection with an East German family’s unsuccessful attempt to escape to the West.
He and two other men were found guilty of planning an anti-state action “in the course of which an infant was killed,” the news agency said.
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