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first mass deportation. However, the consistent and persistent pursuit of ongoing
measures against the Jews provides evidence of the diligence and degree of
thoroughness of antisemitic activities and policies at the local level. The
Magdeburg Gestapo was unrelenting in its pursuit of Jews.
Jews who possessed dual nationality were stripped of their German nationality
from 14 May 1942 and hence their assets were confiscated. 108 As deportations
increased, so too, did the desire to remove the remaining Jews in Germany from
public space. On 6 June 1942, Jews were banned from using waiting-room
facilities at all public transport stations. 109
Approximately one month prior to the second mass deportation of Jews from
Magdeburg on 11 July 1942, further confiscations of their property took place in
June 1942. 110 On 17 June 1942, Dr Julius Riese of the Verwaltungsstelle
Magdeburg informed members of the Jewish community that the following goods
were to be surrendered to the community’s offices by 21 June: electrical
equipment, including heaters, electric fires, sunray lamps, electric heat pads,
saucepans, hotplates, vacuum cleaners, hairdryers and irons; and gramophones,
including electrical gramophones and records. Items used in medical consultations
by medical and dental practitioners were exempted, as were such items belonging
to homes for the aged, for the infirm and for children. 111 As in the past,
108 Betr.: Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz (Anwendung auf Juden mit doppelter
Staatsangehörigkeit), 14. Mai 1942, Bestand Rep. G 1, Signatur Nr. 390, LHASA
MD, p. 70.
109 Betr.: Benutzung der Vekehrsmittel durch Juden, 6. Juni 1942, Bestand Rep. C 20
I. I b, Signatur Nr. 1, LHASA MD, op. cit., p. 262.
110 Bezirksstelle Sachsen-Thüringen der Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland
Verwaltungsstelle Magdeburg, 17. Juni 1942, File AR 6559, LBIA NY, op. cit.,
unnumbered page, one-page newsletter.
111 Ibid.