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Next day German plainclothes cops arrested Fritz Roessler as he signed his phony name in the Bundestag lobby list; they led him off through a basement window to a waiting car, to avoid photographers out front. He went quietly, freely admitting his B deception. A shocked Bundestag committee quickly lifted his parliamentary immunity. The charges brought against him as he sat in Bonn jail: forgery of documents, unauthorized job-holding, use of false name and—a grave offense in Germany—unauthorized use of a Ph.D.