Life_under_Siege_The_Jews_of_Magdeburg_under_Nazi_Rule.pdf

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was approximately RM 8.531 billion gross, RM 7.123 billion net after deduction
of debts and other obligations. 124 The relevant forms to be completed were
despatched with directions to all relevant governmental administrative bodies in
Magdeburg for the province of Saxony on 8 June 1938. 125 Completing this process
was undertaken so thoroughly in Magdeburg that even the value and contents of
safety deposit boxes of Jewish clients were meticulously registered by the
Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt, Filiale Magdeburg and despatched to the
Customs Investigation Office of the provincial government in July and August
1938. 126
On 5 October 1938, the registrations of all property owned by Jews in the
province was finalised. The city of Magdeburg recorded that there were 350
registrants. Of this figure, 261 were German-born Jews, nineteen were non-Jewish
spouses, forty were foreign-born Jews and thirty were classified as stateless Jews.
The total net value of the reported Jewish assets and property was RM
14,993,915.69; this figure also included the amount of RM 154,549.79, which
represented registered foreign assets of German-born Jews. 127 This figure must be
viewed cautiously, as by this time over 60% of Jewish-owned businesses in
Magdeburg had been sold or ‘aryanised’ at prices far below market value,
including the most successful and lucrative enterprises such as ‘Kaufhaus
Gebrüder Barasch’. From a memorandum emanating from the office of the
124 Barkai, op. cit., p. 113.
125 Betrifft: Amtliches Muster für die Anmeldung des Vermögens von Juden auf
Grund der Verordnung vom 26. April 1938, RGB1.I.S.414, 8. Juni 1938, Bestand
Rep. C 20 I. I b, Signatur Nr. 2537, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp. 11–13.
126 Correspondence between the Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt, Filiale
Magdeburg and the Zollfahndungstelle, Magdeburg, 22 July 1938 – 6 September
1938, Bestand Rep. I 94, Signatur Nr. 18, LHASA MD, pp. 2–31.
127 Betrifft: Auswertung der Anmeldung des Vermögens von Juden und jüdisch
Versippten auf Grund der Verordnung vom 26. April 1938, RGB1.I.S.414, Bestand
Rep. C 20 I. I b, Signatur Nr. 2537, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp. 48–51.