A court yesterday sentenced Rudolf Stengel, an architect and Nazi agent-provocateur, to two months’ imprisonment for giving the police false information against Jews.
Stengel had accused a man named Stern and other Jews of offering 100,000 marks for the assassination of Chancellor Hitler of Germany, Konrad Henlein, leader of the Czechoslovakian German minority, and other German and Czechoslovakian Nazi leaders.
The police, acting on the information, kept the Jews under long surveillance, finally coming to the conclusion the charges against them were baseless.
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