Carl Schuhmann, a member of the Hitlerist Party, who is Director of the Munich branch of the Commercial Bank, has been sentenced by the law court at Munich to one year’s imprisonment for trying to extort money from the Jewish customers of his Bank by sending them anonymous letters containing copies of the so-called Boxheim documents, containing the programme of the Hitlerist regime in regard to the Jews, and threatening that unless they paid “protection money” varying between 5,000 and 15,000 Marks, they would be killed.
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