A German attorney in practice in Lower Saxony, Dr. Rudolf Grosse-Hagenbrock, has been arrested for fraud, blackmail, misrepresentation, tax evasion and violation of foreign currency control legislation in connection with restitution cases, a field in which he specialized.
Among the attorney’s clients were several hundred Jewish restitution and indemnification claimants. According to charges filed by the district attorney in Bielefeld, Grosse-Hagenbrock converted to his own use large sums due them, To the Jewish owner of a house he sold for a substantial sum, he remitted the equivalent of three dollars. In another case, a Jewish woman now living in the United States was credited by him with five deutschemarks while he himself retained several thousand marks for “fees” and “expenses.”
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