WORLD IN BRIEF : SWITZERLAND : 74 Stand Trial Over Claims on Nazi Ties
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Seventy-four historians and writers who supported the right of a historian to accuse a dead lawyer of Nazi links went on trial in Zurich accused of libel. The defendants include former Swiss government ministers and West German historian Golo Mann. They backed academic Walther Hofer after he was fined $640 for damaging the reputation of Wilhelm Frick, a Swiss lawyer who died in 1961.
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