member of the Lesum SA unit Reservesturm 29/411 under the command of the SA Obersturmführer Friedrich Jahns, who assisted in the killing of Martha and Adolph Goldberg. Martha and Adolph Goldberg were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ritterhude. Legal proceedings The circumstances of the crime were not investigated by the public prosecutor, but rather by the NSDAP Supreme Party Court Special Division 6 (Sondersenat Nr. 6 des Obersten Parteigerichts der NSDAP). It was reported to be the "mood" of those involved that "the time for the full solution to the Jewish question was deemed to have come, and the few hours remaining before the following day had to be put to use". It was said that the men had acted in the certainty that such orders were only given in agreement with the highest places. Thus justified, the party court proceedings against the SA members and "fellow party members" August Frühling and those who gave his orders were dropped on 20 January 1939. On 13 February, the highest party judge Walter Buch requested the Führer Adolf Hitler to quash the proceedings before the criminal courts: according to a determination by the Supreme Party Court, during the so-called "time of the struggle" it was common practice that the party leaders made some orders deliberately unclear, in order to remain in the background as the organizers of a particular operation. For active National Socialists, he argued, it was still normal to read more into an order than was actually said. "Improper motives" could not be established, and "those party members who overstepped the mark due to proper National Socialist belief and readiness for action should be protected". August Frühling (1885–1966), the perpetrator, had been a ship's engineer. He was at sea from 1908 on, served in the First World War with the German Imperial Navy, and after 1920 worked as a mechanical engineer and operations manager for various companies, or was unemployed. Frühling joined the SA in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1937, and in 1938 was appointed SA Scharführer. The man who passed him his orders, Fritz Johann Köster (1906–1993), started out as a business clerk, joined the SA in 1932 and the NSDAP in 1933, was mayor of Lesum from 1834 to 1939, and then worked in the Bremen administration. From 1943 on, Köster was a senior civil servant, and finally a representative of the Bremen Construction Senator, and