Human Failure

The expropriation of the German Jews benefitted virtually every other German citizen.

It was not the Gestapo who invaded Jewish residences in order to confiscate all assets - from bank accounts to the last shirt - it was the German tax officials.

A bizarre competition evolved between bureaucrats as to how one should organize the robbery of the Jews before they were expelled or sent to the gas chambers.

Larger assets went to the tax offices, and the smaller assets and goods were sold to friends and neighbors in public auctions of "non-aryan" property.

Many of the documents proving this expropriation were lost or destroyed; the ones that remained were hidden away.

A search for traces...

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH