American student who was attending the University of Munich, is being held in a Nazi prison at Heidelberg because he wrote a four line verse in a German hotel register satirizing the Hitler Government, it was disclosed here today.
Announcement was made by the young man's guardian, Mr. Hester Robinson of Oakland who said that Mr. Curts had been in the Nazi prison for three weeks.
The State Department was said to have informed Mr. Robinson that the American Embassy in Berlin had intervened in an attempt to obtain Mr. Curts' freedom.
Mr. Robinson revealed he had received a carefully worded letter from his ward after his imprisonment. The letter thanked Germain citizens for "beating" him and said that the treatment he was receiving "really has given me an opportunity to know. They will fight for:
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