Reich officials often justified their policies toward Jews with arguments about economic necessity. For example, one German bureaucrat stationed abroad during the war made the reasonable-sounding — if morally abhorrent — assertion that the sale of Jewish assets was ‘an effective means of price regulation.’
Götz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2005), Jefferson Chase, trans., p. 199.
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Just what were these German Nazis SMOKING in those Days?! Good grief Charlie Brown!