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From oneb!mala!cs.brown.edu!dzk Wed Mar  3 13:35:45 PST 1993
Article: 1376 of alt.revisionism
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From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
Subject: Property Plundered From Jewish Victims
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 11:59:30 -0500
Message-ID: <9303031659.AA15507@cslab6e.cs.brown.edu>
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA


(Sorry for the error in my previous message - here is the complete version).

Here are some additions to Ken's poster, regarding the valuables taken
from the Jewish victims of the Nazis. As one can see, the SS beasts
used everything they could take from the victims - from cash money to
underpants and hair.

While evaluating the sums involved, one has to remember that we are
talking about 50 years ago. Anyone know what a Dollar then is
equal to today?

I would also like to note that this is a very small selection of
such documments, and I am not posting the whole documents; some
of them are dozens of pages long.


Letter from SS-Brigadefuehrer Frank to chief of administration of
Auschwitz, concerning the utilization and distribution of "evacuated"
Jews, 26 September 1942
[ToWC, Vol. XIII, p. 256]
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e) Women's clothing and women underwear including footwear, children's
clothing and children's underwear including footwear have to be handed
over to the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle against payment...

f) Featherbeads, quilts, woolen blankets, cloth for suits, shawls,
umbrellas, walking sticks, thermos flasks, earflaps, baby carriages,
combs, handbags, leather belts, shopping baskets, tobacco pipes,
sun glasses, mirrors, table knives, forks and spoons, knapsacks, and
suitcases made from leather or artificial material are to be delivered
to the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. The question of payment will be
decided later...

h) Spectacles and eyeglasses of every kind are to be handed in to
the medical office for utilization. (Spectacles with golden frames
have to be handed in without glasses together with the rare metals).


Letter from SS-Gruppenfuehrer Katzmann to SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Kruger,
regarding the "solution of the Jewish problem in Galicia", and giving
a breakdown of property taken from the Jews, June 30, 1943
[DotH, p. 335]
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Valuables were secured and handed over to the special staff
"Reinhard". Apart from furniture and large quantities of textile,
etc., the following were confiscated and delivered to special staff
"Reinhard":

As of June 30, 1943:

 .
 .
20.952 Kg - wedding rings - gold
22.740 Kg - pearls
11.730 Kg - gold teeth
 .
 .

Report by SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl to Himmler's office, February
6 1943, listing items plundered from Jewish victims and delivered
to various Nazi organizations
[ToWC, Vol. V, p. 699]
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Report on the realization of textile-salvage from the Jewish
resettlement up to the present date...

1. Reich ministry of economics

Men's old clothing without underwear       97,000 sets
Women's old clothing without underwear     76,000 sets
women's silk underwear                     89,000 sets
                                         Total 34 cars
Rags -           400 cars, 2,700,000 Kg
Bed feathers -   130 cars, 270,000 Kg
Women's hair -   1 car, 3,000 Kg
Scrap material - 5 cars, 19,000 Kg


Report by SS-Grupenfuehrer Globocnik listing items plundered
from the Jewish victims of "Operation Reinhard" and delivered to
various Nazi organizations. Attached is a detailed list, prepared
by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Wippern on February 27, 1943.
[ToWC, Vol. V, p. 704]
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..
..
Valuation of Jewish belongings delivered up to 3 February 1943

1. cash -                     RM 15,931,722.01
   Delivery SS Econ. Krakow - RM 31,500,000.00
   SS WVHA Berlin -           RM  5,581,411.50
                              ----------------
                              RM 53,013,133.51

[At that time, 2.5 RM were equal to 1 US Dollar].





-Danny Keren.




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