leon21 Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Heres a group of company letters all to the same family, they are to Leo/Emilie Pausch who ran a mixed trading business in Neudek Sudetenland. The letters them -selves are a bit mundain reading, but give an insight into this families life during the war years. What I like best about these are the company letterheads and the matching envelopes that are still with them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Here's a Dresdner Bank Passbook for Frau Ida Distol of Aussig, a Savings Account from 1941 to 1944 nothing special in this you may think and I would agree. ( Until I looked into the Banks history during the Third Reich Years. ) Dresdner Bank was one of Germany's Largest Banking Corporations, based in Frankfurt and Berlin and after the Banking Crisis of 1931. The German Reich owned 66% and Deutsche GolddiskontBank owned 22% of Dresdner Bank shares, Its Deputy Director was Dr Schacht Minister of Economy under Nazism. The Bank was Reprivatised in 1937. Dresdner Bank was also known as the bank of choice for Heinrich Himmler's SS. The Bank took part early on in the Third Reich's policy of confiscating Jewish property and wealth, the Bank also helped to Finance Concentration camps including Auschwitz. The Bank was also closely involved in the occupation of Europe " Essentially acting as the Bank of the SS in Poland. And the Bank also controlled various Banks in other countries under German occupation, It took over Banks in Prague, Bucharest, Riga, Brussels, Krakow, Bratislava and the Banque d' Athenes, and it founded Banks in Amsterdam, Sofia, and Turkey. As a result of WW2 80% of the Banks buildings were destroyed costing the Bank 162 offices in 56 locations. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 and they say the banks today are bad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 The above documents remind me of my office job in the late seventies and first half of the 1980s. Some of the documents were very similar to those I was dealing with and producing daily, such as the Postscheck Überweisung - except that Leipzig was no longer in our sphere, but in another world, just didn't exist in everyday life in the West. The Postschecküberweisung remained in use for a very long time, and all three parts had to be completed without any mistakes or missouts, which was an accomplishment, when you had to do about twenty or thirty after another. These were usually handwritten or with the typewriter. Took some getting used to. I also had a lot of dealings with the Dresdner Bank, amongst others. It may be of some consolation to know, that this bank has been out of existence for several years now. But the other banks are also not much better. Another notorious firm was the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung, Dr. Stabenow G.m.b.H." in Hamburg 28, Peutestrasse. (address wartime) They (had) produced a certain lethal chemical (during the war), which I would not like to mention. In the 1980s they were still in business and had their offices in Chilehaus in Hamburg-Altstadt. This firm also came to notice in my office routine. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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