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Family's quest for truth reveals top insurer's link to SS death camps
2016-11-27
[Guardian] When Dina Gold began searching for the Berlin property seized from her family by the Nazis in the 1930s, she had little idea she would unearth a dark secret ‐ how the SS paid millions in premiums to insure a key part of Auschwitz and other death camps to what is still one of Germany’s top insurance companies.

Gold, a former BBC reporter now living in Washington, wrote earlier this year about her quest to find the massive Berlin building that had housed the headquarters of fur traders H Wolff, owned by her grandparents, which was taken over by the Nazis in 1937, four years after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Stolen Legacy related how her search was prompted by the stories her grandmother, Nellie Wolff, told of her family’s life in pre-Nazi Germany and how they had owned a huge building in the centre of Berlin, which served as the headquarters of their successful business. Nellie died in 1977, leaving nothing to help locate the property or prove its ownership. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Gold set out to find the truth.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  How does the SS, repeat the SS, paying premiums have anything to do with CONTROL? This seems to have been a kickback scheme pure and simple.
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897   2016-11-27 20:06  

#5  ...It's a matter of record that after Kristallnacht - which would have bankrupted several German insurance companies - Reichmarschall Hermann Goering sat down with the heads of all the German insurance companies and explained to them how it would work: They would only have to pay about half of what they owed, and an appreciable portion of that would go to him. There was some argument, but only to the extent that the insurance companies thought they were still paying too much.

With that in mind, I have no doubt that - especially once the war started - the companies happily cooperated.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-11-27 08:37  

#4  It's not about premiums or kick-backs, it's about CONTROL !
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-11-27 07:15  

#3  Come to think of it, none of this makes sense. Why would the all-powerful SS pay premiums -- unless of course there was a kick-back to Himmler and his leadership.
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897   2016-11-27 07:14  

#2  Perhaps this makes more sense:

...how the SS paid millions in premiums to one of Germany’s top insurance companies to insure a key part of Auschwitz and other death camps.
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897   2016-11-27 07:12  

#1  A link between government owned or backed insurance companies and death camps? Absolutely preposterous.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-11-27 01:19  

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