“We have taken from them what wealth they had. I have issued a strict order, which SS-Obergruppenführer Pohl has carried out, that this wealth should, as a matter of course, be handed over to the Reich without reserve.”
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Audio Excerpts from the speech given by Heinrich Himmler to SS Group Leaders in Posen, occupied Poland October 4, 1943
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