The New Year card that was never sent
At some time in December 1969, Hermann Jöhr started to write a New Year’s card to Wolfgang Wackernagel in Basel. But the card was never sent and probably left in the Basel library on a table or hidden in a returned library book.
The Basel library kept his New Year card and archived it. But privacy rules meant the card was kept hidden for 50 years in a file marked Hermann Jöhr. In 2022 the same Basel archive was digitized and made available online but the one item they failed to scan was Hermann’s New Year card.
I investigated Hermann Jöhr in A Camouflaged Murder to see whether he was connected to the murder of Mariann Thunestvedt:
The story of Mariann Thunestvedt was covered in 2022 by the DNA newspaper (and I had a mention).
The mention of my name is here:
