Deleting contacts or groups from address book impossible

How can I delete contacts or groups from my address book? The corresponding menu items "delete contact" or "delete group" are greyed. Pressing the "delete" buttom only works for contacts. But the deleted contact isn't really erased. There remains an untitled contact at the end of the list that I cannot delete. Not very nice :-(
Does anybody knows some help?

I can't recreate that on my Mac, so I suspect something got corrupted in your preferences.
Quit Contacts.
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library".
Then go to yor Preferences folder and and drag com.apple.AddressBook.plist to your Desktop.
Relaunch Contacts and test.

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When addressing an email for this group, are you
entering only the name of the Group as the address?
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Deleting contacts or groups from address book impossible

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