Dr. Ewald Muehleneisen, a 50-year-old attorney who was one of the key figures in the pogrom that raged through the Ruhr city of Bocholt in November 1938, has been acquitted a second time by the local court.
The court declared, as it did in 1951, that there was a “lack of sufficient proof” to connect the then county chief of the Nazi Lawyers’ League with the sacking of apartment and the burning of synagogues. The German Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, holding that proof was adequate, referred the case back for re-trial upon appeal by the prosecution. This time, the prosecutor asked for a nine-month jail sentence, but most of his witnesses suffered from a pronounced loss of memory.
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