The Haupttreuhandstelle Ost (HTO),[1] or the Main Trustee Office for the East, created by Hermann Göring, was a Nazi German predatory state institution responsible for liquidating Polish and Jewish businesses in occupied Poland or selling them to German "settlers" from the East for a symbolic fee during World War II. It was staffed by "a veritable stampede" of officials from the Deutsche and Dresdner banks.[2]
The trusteeship was established on 1 November 1939. It was headquartered in Berlin, in the Office of the Four Year Plan, and headed by Max Winkler. Branches were immediately set up in Danzig, Poznań, Ciechanów, Katowice and Kraków.[3] Hans Frank, the leader of the General Government, was offended by the circumvention of his authority, and therefore established a rivaling trusteeship two weeks later, on 15 November. Göring did not make an issue of the matter, and jurisdiction was split between the incorporated territories and the General Government.[3]
Notes and references
edit- ^ Friedrich, Klaus-Peter (ed.); Andrea Löw (asst.) (2011). Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945. Vol. 4: Polen: September 1939 – Juli 1941. München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. pp. 113, 192, 355–359. ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4. OCLC 845244180. ASIN 3486585258.
{{cite book}}:|first1=has generic name (help) - ^ Allen, Michael Thad (Fall 2003). "The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property (review)". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 17 (2): 361–363. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcg009. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ a b Hilberg, Raul (2003). The destruction of the European Jews (3rd ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. pp. 242–243. ISBN 9780300095579.
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