A criminal court in the British sector of the city, after a two-day trial, today condemned a Jewish clothier named Leibush Bosak, 34, to eight years penal servitude, and ten years deprivation of his civil rights, for having beaten to death a number of Jews and others in the Silesian wartime concentration camps of Waldenburg and Marstedt by order of the camp authorities to obtain better conditions for himself.
He was recently recognized by one of his victims, a Polish Jew, at the headquarters of the Berlin Jewish community, and immediately arrested. The prosecutor had demanded 15 years penal servitude, but the court considered as a mitigating circumstance the "psychosis from which any camp inmate suffered."
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