The criminal court here confirmed the sentence of 2 years imprisonment and 5 years loss of citizenship rights upon Bruehan, who obtained large sums of money from German noblemen and other credulous anti-Semitic zealots on the representation that he had invented a death ray which would annihilate Berlin Jewry in one minute.
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