Remaining

If neither the senior bailiffs nor the experts designated looted art and cultural assets for removal, the Nazi financial administration classified them as ordinary household goods. As a result, they ended up at auctions, were sold collectively to second-hand and individual goods dealers, or found individual interested buyers (“direct sales”).

Excerpt from a document with a handwritten note – someone has written: What should happen to the rest? G[…] refuses; Korge?

Handwritten note from the file on Helene Haase, undated. BLHA, 36A (II) no. 13399, fol. 55