Reichshauptstadt Berlin / Hauptwirtschaftsamt

The Reich capital of Berlin also especially benefited from the looting of the furnishings of deported Jews. On the basis of a contract with the Vermögensverwertungsstelle, the city of Berlin took over all furnishings from the apartments of deportees which were not acquired by retailers at a fixed price for deportation waves I–X, which were then sold as furniture, crockery, and electrical appliances through municipal pawnshops.

After the Vermögensverwertungsstelle briefly commissioned second-hand dealers to clear the apartments again, the Hauptwirtschaftsamt (Main Economic Office) of the city of Berlin took over the furniture left behind by deportees from December 1942 onwards. With ration cards, the Berlin population could purchase furniture and other looted household goods either at the pawnshops or at the second-hand furniture branch office on Rudolf-Wilde-Platz.