Word: krosigk
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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...
...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...
...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...
Finance: Ludwig Count Schwerin von Krosigk...
...making it mean then that Germany "claims" the colonies now under the British, French and other League Mandates "taken away from her after the World War," but such was not the meaning his amicable tone conveyed last week. †Reichsbank President Schacht, Foreign Minister von Neurath, Finance Minister von Krosigk, Chief of Staff General von Fritsch, Admiral of the Fleet Raeder, Rübenach (Transport) and Seldte (Labor...