Nazi Looting: The Plunder of Dutch Jewry during the Second World War (RARE)

Author: Gerard Aalders

Condition: Very good 

Paperback

318 pages

This history and world affairs book details the notoriously efficient Nazi looting machine during the Second World War.

In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders. Approximately one-third of these losses were borne by Jews, who comprised only 1.6% of the total population. In todays terms, the German occupiers stripped the Jewish population of assets worth $7 billion.

This history and world affairs book offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch experience and demonstrates how reputable indigenous institutions acted as willing collaborators.

This book shows how the Germans systematically robbed Dutch Jewry through a variety of means that gave the outward appearance of honest trading. Forced to sell under duress and at unreasonably low prices, few dared refuse the German on the doorstep when threatened with prison or incarceration in a camp. The plundering was total and systematic.

Once the Jews were deported, their houses were emptied and the contents used to re-furnish bombed out areas of the Reich. In common with many other formerly Nazi-occupied countries in Europe, the Netherlands has been unable to retrieve many of its pre-war assets.

More than fifty years after the wars end, 20% of its most important pre-war museum exhibits and approximately 80% of the less important works remain untraced.

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