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Friday, September 19, 1997 | return to: international
German bassist, fired for Hitler `joke,’ sues
by BONN (JTA) -- A German musician has filed a lawsuit against the Berlin Opera for firing him during a May tour of Israel., The 54-year-old bassist, Gerd Reinke, was in a hotel bar in Herzliya when a waiter came up with the check. He insulted the waite
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Reinke said last week that he was drunk and denied that his behavior reflected an anti-Semitic bias.
"It was just a joke," he told a German judge, who unsuccessfully tried to work out a financial settlement of the matter.
The Berlin Opera management said it could not re-employ Reinke because it had lost trust in him.
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