Forwarding companies and warehouses benefited in many ways from the theft of property during the Nazi era. On the one hand, they earned additional income when stored items were no longer picked up by their owners. This applied both to removal goods that could no longer be taken out of the country and to items that persecuted Jews were unable to take with them due to forced moves to small and overcrowded apartments. On the other hand, they earned money by transporting the stored items to auction houses or by auctioning off storage and removal goods themselves on behalf of the Vermögensverwertungsstelle.