The public prosecutor filed an appeal today against the acquittal of Rabbi Aron Ohrenstein Monday of charges of blackmarket activities and smuggling. Dr. Ohrenstein’s vindication in a Munich court came after several years of investigation and prosecution.
At his trial, Rabbi Ohrenstein testified that he had not known that an organization in whose behalf he had intervened was in fact a phony charity group covering the bringing into Germany in 1949-50 of huge quantities of food, nylon stockings and other hard-to-obtain goods. There were ten other defendants, some of whom fled the country before the trial and some of whom received suspended sentences.
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