95 Financial Accounting (Holocaust: Reinhard)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
95 Financial Accounting (Holocaust: Reinhard)
Arad's Encyclopedia article ends with the following, somewhat
chilling information about the monies and valuables collected from
the Reinhard victims:
On December 15, 1943, the Aktion Reinhard headquarters submitted
an account of the moneys, gold, and valuables taken from the
Jews in the extermination camps for which the Reinhard
headquarters was responsible. The figures were quoted in German
marks (the rate of exchange of the reichsmark against the United
States dollar at the time was 2.5 to 1). The report contains the
particulars of the various catagories: United States currency,
about $1,100,000 in cash and $250,000 in gold coins; other
foreign currency, from forty-eight countries; other gold coins,
from thirty-four countries; 2910 kilograms (6,415 pounds) of
gold bars; 18,734 kilograms (41,301 pounds) of silver bars;
diamonds totalling 16,000 carats. The report ends with the sum
totals of the value of all the Jewish possessions collected.
Cash in Polish zlotys and German marks RM 73,852,080.74
Precious metals 8,273,651.60
Foreign currency, in cash 4,521,224.13
Foreign gold coins 1,736,554.12
Precious stones and other valuables 43,662,450.00
Textiles 46,000,000.00
Total RM 178,645,960.59
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