Geheime Staatspolizei / Staatspolizeileitstelle Berlin

The Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police, Gestapo) was an important partner of the Reich financial administration in the theft of property. Until the end of 1941, it initiated expatriation proceedings at the Reichsinnenminister (Reich Minister of the Interior), seized its first assets. It then handed these assets over to the Finance Administration for “Verwertung” (liquidation). The Finance Administration also relied on the Gestapo to deal with assets related to the deportations. It drew up the deportation lists, transferred the collected property declarations of the deportees, and sealed their apartments.

Excerpt from a letterhead: letterhead printed in Gothic script, typewritten address to the Finanzamt Moabit-West blue postmark on the right.

Letter from the Berlin State Police Headquarters to the Moabit-West Tax Office, from the file of Paul Jakob Eisner, 29 November 1940. BLHA, Rep. 36A (II) no. 8094, fol. 103