In the course of the asset theft, the Vermögensverwertungsstelle (Asset Realisation Office) primarily secured items to furnish its own offices. Safes, card index boxes, typewriters, pictures, sculptures, and office furniture thus found their way into the offices.
Order to compile a list of items retained for official use from the assets of expatriates or deportees in the Vermögensverwertungsstelle, 20 June 1944. Berlin State Archive, A Rep. 093-03, no. 54682, fol. 467