Copy
Office West
The Head of the Department
Paris, August 8th 1944
Progress Report up to July 31st 191+4.
The Office West achieved the following results up to July 31st 1944: 69 619 Jewish homes were confiscated.
Dispatched to the several towns, including special orders, were: 69 512 Sets of furnishings, each a complete house.
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The sum total of furniture and fittings dispatched required a loading capacity of: 1 079 373 cbm.
The following were required to provide this capacity inch additional deliveries: 26 984 railroad cars, equivalent to 674 trains.
Further during the action we confiscated for the use of the Reich and handed over to the Department for Foreign Exchange [Devisenschutzkommando] : 11 695 516 RM Foreign currency
and Securities. *
The special purpose branches in France, Belgium and Holland furthermore dispatched: 2 191 352 kg Scrap Metal, Scrap Paper and textiles.
According to the report on Special Tasks | Sonderaufgaben | bombed-out persons accommodated in France, were presented with furniture and fittings valued at 1 516 186 RM
The above results were achieved by a staff of 30 female and 82 male
Officials and Employees of the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
A True Copy (Signed) Deubelmann Employee
Office West Paris, 7.8.44
Schw/H
In carrying out the Fuehrer's orders for the M-action, the following results were achieved within the area of the Office West from invasion day (6th June 44) up to 1st August 44, by 30 female and 82 male officials and employees of the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
1. Camoins (trucks) arrived (through confiscation of
homes in Paris) ....................................... 2006
2. Railroad cars arrived from Branch Offices...-............ 52
3. Railroad cars loaded and dispatched to Germany..........., 372
4. Receipts from sale of Scrap Material..................... 28 124 91 RM
5. Boxes received .......................................... 20 154
6. Boxes handled, packed and dispatched..................... 21 710
Containing-:
China ............................................... 199 boxes
Glass ........................................". . . . 208 boxes
Kitchen utensils ..................................... 196 boxes
Clothing ............................................. 117 boxes
Coat-hangers ........................ ............. 120 boxes
Tailors' materials .................................... 45 boxes
Linen ................................................ 128 boxes
Curtains, for windows .................................. 8 boxes
Curtains (heavy) ...................................... 72 boxes
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Mirrors ........................................ 24 boxes
Clocks ............................................. 73 boxes
Vases .............................................. 45 boxes
Lamps .......................................... 102 boxes
Brushes ............................................ 29 boxes
Toys .......!................................... 99 boxes
Sports gear .................................... 42 boxes
Optical instruments ................................ 17 boxes
Electrical appliances ............................ 48 boxes
Tools .............................................. 35 boxes
Gasmasks ........................................... 78 boxes
Leather goods ..................................... 253 boxes
Medical goods ...................................... 41 boxes
Sanitary goods .................................... 119 boxes
Household goods ................................... 115 boxes
Scrap iron ...................................... 1,503 boxes
Scrap paper...................................... 1,714 boxes
Books ............................................. 482 boxes
Copper, aluminum .................................. 266 boxes
Bottles ........................................... 730 boxes
Rags .............................................. 240 pressed bales
J Scraps of furs ................................... 123 boxes
Silver goods ....................................... 33 boxes
7. Special work:
SS-Garrison-Admlnistration Munich................... 27 cars
SS-Directorats Central Office ...................... 51 wagons
116th Armoured Regiment, Dortmund.................... 2 wagons
116th Armoured Regiment, Dortmund ................... 2 wagons
47th Inf. Div........................................ 3 wagons
Obersturmfuehrer Tychsen, Wearer of the Oak
Leaves Medal [Eichenlaubtraeger] ............. 1 wagon
Cptn. Ninnemann ................................ 1 wagon .
Cptn. Adamy.......................................... 1 wagon
Sturmbannf. Brehmer, Wearer of Knights' Cross
[Ritterkreuztraeger] .............................. 1 wagon
Obergruppenf. Lorenz, Berlin ........................ 3 wagons
Reich Postal Director, Berlin, Cuilleaunie........... 1 wagon
Pianos, Messrs H. Langner, Breslau .................. 3 wagons
Division: "Das Reich" ............................... 1 wagon
The cabinet-makers' workshop set up in the camp repaired and restored: 30 Sideboards
23 Dining Room Tables 56 Dining Room Chairs 43 Chests of Drawers 65 Beds
10 Dressing Tables
30 Bedside-Tables and Washing-Stands 12 Book Cases
24 Writing desks
25 Easy Chairs
25 Kitchen Cabinets
1024
15 Kitchen Tables 35 Kitchen Chairs 1 Couch 1
4 Easy chairs were upholstered and recovered.
Report on the M-Action
The fight against Jews, Freemasons and the forces allied to them or otherwise ideologically opposed to us, has always been a most urgent task of National Socialism, especially during the War which has been forced upon us. In order to secure, within the areas occupied by Germany, all research material and the cultural effects of the groups indicated and to dispatch them to Germany, the Fuehrer at the suggestion of Reichsleiter Rosenberg was ordered that libraries, archives, lodges and other ideological and cultural institutions of all kinds be searched for appropriate material and that this be secured for the ideological instruction of the National Socialist Party.
The same order applies to cultural effects which were either in the possession of or were the property of Jews and were unclaimed or originated from sources not clearly ascertainable.
The Special Purpose Staff [Einsatzstab] of Reichsleiter Rosenberg was charged with the carrying out of this task. In addition to this seizure of property, at the suggestion of the Director West of the Special Purpose Staff it was proposed to the Reichsleiter that the furniture and other contents of the unguarded Jewish homes should also be secured and dispatched to the Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, for use in the occupied Eastern Territories. The Fuehrer agreed to Reichsleiter Rosenberg's proposal by means of the letter of thé Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery dated 31.12.51. The Special Purpose Staff of Reichsleiter Rosenberg was charged , with carrying out this task in the occupied territories. The amount of work to be done in this section forced the Special Purpose Staff of Reichsleiter Rosenberg to return the mandate of 14.1.1942 to the Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories so that this might be executed by him, owing to personnel difficulties. The Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories thereupon organized the Office West on 25.3.42 in Paris with local branches in France, Belgium and Holland. The Director West of the Special Purpose Staff of Reichsleiter Rosenberg E.R.R. was appointed Chief of this Office. At first all the confiscated furniture and goods were dispatched to administrations in the Occupied Eastern Territories. Owing to the terror attacks on German cities, which then
began and in the knowledge that bombed-out people of Germany ought to have preference over'the Eastern people, Reich Minister and Reichsleiter Rosenberg obtained a new order from the Fuehrer according to which the furniture etc. obtained through the M.-Action was to be put at the disposal of bombed-out people within Germany.
DOCUMENT L-I9I
"The Exploitation of Foreign Labor by Germany."
[See International Labor Office Study]