Saturday, November 15, 1947 Neue Presse
A party comrade with two souls / A. V. in front of the Coburg Chamber of Spruchkammer
On November 13, the businessman A. V. from Lichtenfels had to answer to the court of Coburg-Stadt, chaired by Mr. Dehmel. The trial was held before the Coburg Chamber, as the chairman of the Lichtenfels Chamber had declared himself to be biased.
The person concerned was a member of the NSDAP, from 1933-1936, and also belonged to the Reich Air Protection Association and the German Labor Front. The public plaintiff, Mr. Ostermann, charged the person concerned with his party membership, his applications for businesses in the occupied eastern territories, the attempt to blackmail a Jew in a concentration camp, and a letter to the High Command of the Wehrmacht. […]
A vile attempt at blackmail
V. had bought a house from Grünhut in 1934 and paid part of it with a mortgage, which Grünhut took over himself. After the Jewish pogroms in 1938, four years later, Grünhut was brought to the Dachau concentration camp as a Jew, and now V. suddenly discovered that he had been cheated when buying the house, both in the purchase price and as a result of the necessary repairs in Grünhut's house. He commissioned the then mayor of Lichtenfels, Krautheim, to "protect his interests" in the Grünhut internment camp in Dachau. When the mayor could not do anything there, and also the attempts to achieve something in writing at Grünhut failed, V. turned to the camp commander of Dachau with a letter.
The chairman initiated the reading of the corresponding correspondence with the words
"When I read this letter, as a German, I blushed out of shame!"
When one then hears the words written by V., "For me as an Aryan it is an unjustified state of affairs to be in debt bondage to a Jew! When one imagines the means by which the camp commandant in Dachau would carry out the wish of the person concerned, "to arrange it so that Grünhut complies with my wishes," then the personality of the person concerned is put into perspective. V. later undertook similar attempts with the district leadership of the party in Munich, where Grünhut had gone after his release from Dachau. In a letter addressed to the district leader in Munich, it says: "I ask that he (Grünhut) be ordered to appear at the district leadership and that he be made to sign the attached declaration. All these letters are decorated with a disgusting Jewish hate symbols to make them palatable to the brown rulers. […]