Имперское министерство экономики (г. Берлин)

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010. The collection's contents are catalogued in 54 inventories, all of which are arranged by structure. The inventories are loose-leaf and type-written, and include inventory section indexes; there is a cartographic index to. the collection's files and an index of inventory titles. The collection contains thematically organized files consisting of circulars, orders, decrees, and correspondence devoted to restricting the rights of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territories (including the Soviet Union, the Baltic republics, and Belorussia) with regard to personal and property insurance, the issuing of credit and bank loans, payment for work, and sick pay. There are, moreover, individual circulars, orders, directives, decrees appended to legislative acts, stenographic reports of speeches, and minutes of secret meetings of senior Reich officials Hermann Goring, Walther Funk, and Labor Minister Franz Seldte on excluding Jews from the German economy and commerce, on confiscating Jewish-owned plots of land and property in German territory and in German-occupied countries, including the Soviet Union, and on expelling Jews from Germany; and analytic surveys and papers on German legislation with regard to Jews. Prior to 1917, guidance of the German economy fell under the jurisdiction of the Reich Office of the Interior; it was subsequently transferred to the jurisdiction of the Reich Economics Office, which in 1919 was converted into a ministry. In 1934, the ministry subsumed the Prussian Ministry of Economics. Besides purely economic, legal, and financial issues, the ministry was responsible for restricting the civil and property rights of Jews, and expelling them from Germany and German-occupied territories. The German Ministry of Economics was headed by Dr. Kurt Schmitt (1933-35), Hjalmar G. Schacht (1935-37), Herman Goring (1937-38), and subsequently by Walther Funk (1938-45). In 1942, by arrangement with Himmler, Funk made Reichsbank vaults available for storing valuables taken from the Jewish population and brought from prisons and camps. The Reich Ministry of Economics ceased activities in 1945 with the defeat of Nazi Germany. Microfilms are held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.