Joseph Strauss was honest and law-abiding
My father was a tax official, and it was strictly prohibited to share any pertinent information, even before the Nazis came to power. Well, with one special person he turned a blind eye, and so he did the income tax return for Joseph Strauss. ”Everyone is cheating the Government on their tax return except for one person, and that is Joseph.” My father could say that since he was a specialist in the first place, and he had prepared Joseph’s tax return. Joseph was also very law-abiding as far as the religious law was concerned. At Passover time they were not allowed to have any leavened food stuffs, no durum wheat and ‘what do I know’, inside the home, nor would they sell any of that. It all was stored at the former garage, which was at a distance from the house. Then my father would buy by contract the garage plus contents for something like 20 marks. After the holydays the contract was rescinded, my father got his 20 marks back, the merchandise was returned to the store, and thus the law was observed.

Joseph also had quite a sense of humor
Whenever something funny happened at the store he would come over and say:
” I’ve got to tell you something!” For example: A country kid - a yokel - would
come to the store and ask for ” a dime’s worth of candy, ‘cause I want to suckle a little bit”. Or: A farmer, whom they had sold 100 pounds of green peas to - they
cost just so much and the yellow ones ditto -, would came and say, ”I don’t know ‘yellow ones ditto’, and I didn’t order them either”.