Haupttreuhandstelle Ost

The Haupttreuhandstelle Ost (HTO),[1] or the Main Trustee Office for the East, created by Hermann Göring was a Nazi German predatory state institution responsible for liquidating Polish and Jewish businesses in occupied Poland or selling them to German "settlers" from the East for a symbolic fee during World War II. It was staffed by "a veritable stampede" of officials from the Deutsche and the Dresdner Banks.[2]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945. (Quellensammlung) Band 4: Polen – September 1939-Juli 1941 (bearb. von Klaus-Peter Friedrich), München 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4, pp. 113, 192, 355-359.
  2. ↑ Michael Thad Allen (Fall 2003). "In lieu of an abstract". The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property. Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Volume 17, Number 2. Retrieved October 20, 2012.