A new study examines the role of the financial administration in the Nazi regime in the systematic plundering of the Jewish population in Schleswig-Holstein. At the end of the Weimar Republic, almost 2000 Jews lived there, more than half of whom were later murdered by the NS regime. Before the Holocaust, all Jews were deprived of rights and robbed of their property.
The study sheds light on how the NS fiscal authority plundered the Jews in Schleswig-Holstein. At the end of the Weimar Republic, around 1933, almost 2000 Jews lived in the area of the present-day federal state. More than half of these individuals were murdered by the NS regime. Before the actual Holocaust, all Jews were deprived of rights and financially plundered.
The financial administration played a central role, as outlined in the new study. It describes the mechanisms through which the regime confiscated Jewish assets and economically ruined the affected people. This occurred in the years following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 and before the mass murders of the Holocaust starting in 1941.
The investigation is based on historical documents and aims to better understand the bureaucratic structures of the NS state in Schleswig-Holstein. It emphasizes the systematic deprivation of rights and dispossession as a precursor to extermination. Further details about the study, such as the authors' names or the exact publication date, are not provided in the sources.
