Basically you found post-war documents. The first one is an ID card of the person. Then there is a personal letter where he explains to a friend how his family is doing (they are sick) and that he is sending a doll. After that is a letter to a Taylor to remind him to make his suit. The next thing is quite interesting, it’s a passage sheet that allows him to go to work on his bicycle every day. Then there is all kinds of stuff about a piano (receipt, manual). The green thing is to get food.

If you want to know more I can go into detail but it’s quite late now in Germany so I will probably answer you tomorrow. But you definitely found someone’s personal history/story there! Maybe you can upload a better picture of the letter to his friend, that’s a good source to get to know him and his circumstances better.

From what I can make out, Josef Jost was an accountant for a motor company (Benz) in Mannheim. During the war he had to relocate to Walldorf, since the administration of his company left Mannheim in order to avoid the bombings. Most of the letters are about organizing stuff, like shoes, food, seeds, cigarettes. He does some gardening to obtain food and also claims that his rabbits were stolen after a bombing raid. But there are also official documents like a requisition form for shoes and his drafting notice from the end of the war, when he was drafted into Volkssturm. He was 54 at the time. I couldn't find anything where he writes about the nazis and only few mentionings of his stance on the war. Although it seems he wasn't a party member. There is declaration, that he was unaware that his colleague Mister K was part of the nazi party and that furthermore mister K never appeared to be a follower to the nazi ideology. His friend(?) Michael who moved to Chicago refers to the nazis as "Braune Bande" (brown mob), but that was only after the war. When he talks about the war, he mainly describes the sufferings, destruction and shortages of all kinds. And of course the whereabouts of his family. He hopes for the war to end but in a letter from 43 or 44 he commented a drafting announcement with the words, that if him joining the war effort will shorten the war, he is willing to fight. But later he claims he doesn't feel like going to war but again if it is necessary to defend his home, he will do so. His son in law was captured by the Americans in the Netherlands and he has two daughters who seemingly also survived the war. There is one letter I find peculiar from the city of Walldorf, "drafting" the accountants who lived there for community service during winter 43 to clear the roads. It is very strange since it claims whose idea it was to draft the remaining accountants for the service and while threatening anyone who will not appear, it also promises a get together with a glass of wine afterwards. From the letters I could make out it seems Josef jost was someone who tried to get by during these times, and he suffered no loss of kin. He neither seemed to be a passionate Nazi but he doesn't seem to be in opposition to them either. He seemed to be one of many, a regular accountant, struggling to survive and it seems not being too involved in politics. (But again, that is only from the letters I could read)