A local German court today sentenced Otto Imrenz, a Nazi police official, to 10 months imprisonment for mistreating and injuring F. Stern, a Jewish teacher in the town of Frankenberg in 1938.
The prosecution also presented evidence that Stern died in the Buchenwal concentration camps several days after Lorenz’ attack. The court, however, fond that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the Jew died as a result of the injuries inflicted by Lorenz.
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