Although his request was granted and a copy of the court ruling sent to the German authorities, it was not made clear to the latter that his sentences had been commuted from deprivation of liberty to payment of a fine and that they were now to run concurrently, taking account of previous fines.
Kljub temu, da je bilo njegovi prošnji ugodeno in da je bila kopija odločbe sodišča poslana nemškim organom, slednjim ni bilo pojasnjeno, da so se njegove zaporne kazni spremenile v denarne in da sedaj potekajo sočasno, ob upoštevanju predhodnih denarnih kazni.