[Court Protocols - Session XV]

The file contains the protocol of the fifteenth session of the Bern trial on the 8th of May 1935 in the afternoon. After the president, judge Walter Meyer, opened the session Loosli continued his expertise statement, which he started in the twelfth session in the morning on the day before. He continued to speak about the Freemasons, who is belonging to them and who does not. He points out specifically that the Freemasons and Jews are not the same and can not be treated as one. As the time for the preparation of his expertise was quite short, he could not explain in detail the development and the inner as well as the outer structures of the Freemasons. In his explanation he tried to point the differences out and showed that the Protocols of the wise man of Zion have on the one hand nothing to do with the Freemasons and on the other hand nothing with Jews. Furthermore he described assaults on Jewish inhabitants and shop owner in Switzerland crystallize how important this trial is in order to forbid this 'Schundliteratur' (trash literature) in Switzerland.