Approx. 120 documents: official letters, certificates, and reports, concerned with various financial matters; extensive correspondence between branches of the Nazi tax authority (Finanzamt) in different districts of Vienna, as well as in other locales, and other official organizations: the "State Food Society" (Reichsnährstand), the "Reich Flight Tax Office" (Reichsfluchtsteuerstelle), which was in charged with looting the financial assets of Jewish emigrants, the "German Labour Front" (Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront), office of the Higher Regional Court in Vienna (Oberlandesgerichtpräsident in Wien), Vienna State Opera, National Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, and more. Nazi Austria and Germany, 1930s to mid-1940s. German.
Letters typewritten on official stationery with letterheads of various Nazi organizations, bearing many handwritten remarks, inked stamps and signatures of Nazi officials and clerks.
The items in the present collection provide a fascinating insight into the workings of Nazi bureaucracy in Germany and Austria: the Aryanization of Jewish property, the collection of the "Reich Flight Tax, " which particularly targeted Jews seeking to escape Nazi Germany, writs of execution against several Jews (in accordance with the law, given names of Jewish men and women appearing on official documents are supplemented with the names "Israel" and "Sara", respectively) – All testify to the bureaucratized robbery of Jewish assets, concealed under a legal guise.
The majority of the collection comprises annual tax statements, payslips detailing salaries and deductions, pensions and stipends, paid to Austrian and German clerks, soldiers, disabled veterans, musicians, and others; employment certificates issued by various Nazi institutions; correspondence relating to industrial production for the war effort; various administrative requests exchanged between different governmental bodies, many of which by the "German Labour Front, " and more.
Included:
• Document sent by the Brigittenau district tax office in Vienna, to the Mariahilf district tax office, regarding a writ of execution against the Jewish woman Elisabeth Sara Steiner (29.5.1941).
• Document sent from Gänserndorf in Gau Niederdonau, to the tax office in Mistelbach – approval of submission of a tax statement by three Jewish individuals: Malvine, Siegfried and Julie Peschkes (18.11.1938).
• Form sent from the Neubau district authority in Vienna to the Lemberg (Lviv) tax office, requesting administrative assistance in collecting a debt from the Jews Irma (Sara) and Erwin Hopmeier (21.11.1941).
• Request for payment issued by the Mariahilf district tax office to the Jew Gustav Israel Holzer; payment required for the purpose of cancellation of a standing foreclosure order (1.12.1941).
• Document sent by the Vermögensverkehrsstelle in Vienna – the authority overseeing the Aryanization of Jewish property – to the tax office in Mariahilf, confirming the Aryanization of the company B. Wolkenstein (28.1.1941).
• Letter sent by the authority overseeing the Aryanization of Jewish property in the Ministry for Economy and Labour (Vermögungsverkehrsstelle im Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit), sent to the Neubau tax office, with regards to the Jewish woman Bortcza Herzl (this name appears in a list of victims of Aryanization published in the book "Das Dreieck meiner Kindheit", Vienna, 2008. p. 216.)
• Document issued by the Air Force command (Flugplatzkommando A 21/XVI) in Brünn (Brno) detailing annual salary payments made to colonel Rudolf Prochaska. Prochaska is believed to have been one of the Nazi assailants who assassinated Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, during the "July Putsch" in 1934 (7.3.1944).
• Letters and documents exchanged between engineers and administrators of the "German Labour Front, " regarding the development of alternative methods for manufacturing fibers required by the arms industry (1940-1941).
• Many additional documents, issued by various governmental organizations: tax offices in different districts of Vienna, Berlin, Düsseldorf, and other cities; The Viennese police (Der Polizeipräsident in Wien, ) the Reich's administration in Vienna, and more; several financial periodicals, and other official documents.
Approx. 120 items. Size varies. Good overall condition.