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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago that Prussian aristocrat, Nazi Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, was given the highly congenial task of plucking the Jews of Germany of $400,000,000, one-fifth of their estimated wealth. This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as "punishment" for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one Herschel Grynsz-pan, a young Polish Jew (TIME...
...Germans." And last week in Germany, his race had once again to pay for his crime. All during 1939 Jews in Germany have frantically sold their property at ruinous prices in efforts to pay their $400,000,000 fine. On Aug. 15 they made "final payments," but last week Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk announced that this has proved "not enough...
...during the year. Nazis even admitted that, had not forced selling depressed the value of Jewish property and securities, the sums realized would probably have totaled the $400,000,000 originally demanded. Jews were informed last week that they must now "make up the difference for lost values," and Count Krosigk prepared to strip the Jewish community of about five per cent more of its wealth...
...Even the most absolute dictator is susceptible to the influence of his surroundings. Nevertheless Herr Hitler's decisions, his calculations and his opportunism were his own. As Field Marshal Göring once said to me, 'When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts more than the stones on which we are standing. It is the Führer alone who decides.' If anything did count, it was the opinion of his mili tary advisers...
...only ten years' worth of service stripes, 13 executives (average age: 52) of this 37-year-old company average 26½ years with the company. Down, the line, 25 superintendents average 17 years, 70 foremen 19 years. No small achievement is this in an industry which must count on starving three years out of every ten, just getting by another three...