Plunder of Jewish property in the Nazi-occupied areas of the Soviet Union

Arad, Yitzhak, 1926-2021
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Title Plunder of Jewish property in the Nazi-occupied areas of the Soviet Union.
Additional Titles Разграбление нацистской Германией еврейского имущества на оккупированных территориях СССР
Original Library/publisher Yad Vashem Studies. Jerusalem
Яд Вашем
исследования. Иерусалим
Проблемы Холокоста. Запорожье
Holocaust
Critical Concepts in Historical Studies. Vol. I-VI. Ed. by David Cesarani. New York: Routledge, 2004
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 29 (2001) 109-148
Description The Nazi plunder of Jewish property in the USSR was different from that in other occupied countries. There was no private property in the USSR, so only homes, furniture, clothes, valuables, artworks, etc. could be confiscated
most of the Jews were killed on the spot and their property remained at the disposal of the local authorities. Describes the organization of the plunder: orders and directives of the German authorities which regulated the expropriation of the Jews and the transfer of the spoil. Besides the "official plunder", unofficial pillage also took place: marauding German soldiers, indigenous police, and the general populace stole much of the Jewish property. Among those who took part in the official plunder and benefited from it were German authorities, Einsatzgruppen and other SS formations, German and indigenous police, as well as various institutions and individuals in Germany. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Appeared also in "Holocaust
Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" III (2004). A Russian version appeared in "Problemy Kholokosta" 1 (2002). Appeared also as "Разграбление нацистской Германией еврейского имущества на оккупированных территориях СССР" in "Яд Вашем
исследования" 1 (2009) 119-153.
In Hebrew:
"יד ושם
קובץ מחקרים" כט (תשסא) 85-116
Language English
Russian
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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