[Discussions and correspondences concerning the news coverage and strategic planning concerning the Bern trial in April 1935] [2]

The file contains correspondences of several people and organizations concerning the news coverage and press releases after the first court session in October 1934. These reports and press releases in 1935 were rather criticized by the plaintiffs, but were never the less collected to plan and discuss the further course for the Bern trial. Furthermore financial matters, like payments and loans are discussed. The procurement of process-relevant files and materials is also an important issue, mentioned in the letters. Letters from and to the Israelischen Kultusgemeinde Zuerich and from and to the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) are presented. Also correspondences of private people, connected to and working for the Bern trial, like Marcel Bloch, who was a member of the board of SIG; Alexander Tager, who, during the Bern trial, procured material from Moscow and Leningrad archives on behalf of the plaintiff via the central archives of the USSR; the expert C. A. Loosli, who got, with permission of the Soviet government by the librarian Tager in Moscow, copies of authentic material from the tsarist administration, especially on the Russian Okhrana and on the Russian Jews; Boris Lifschitz, who had contacts to the Soviet administration and who played an important role in procuring the Russian documents and contacting various Russian witnesses to appear at the first court session in 1934, Saly Mayer, also a representative of the SIG; Ulrich Fleischhauer, a key defense organizer and expert at the Bern Trial, in addition letters by Brunschvig, Rabbiner Dr. M Schorr, Dr. H. Matti and E. Tscherikover, are attached. Furthermore telegrams and handwritten letters are presented.