Haupttreuhandstelle Ost

The Haupttreuhandstelle Ost (HTO),^[1] or the Main Trustee Office for the East, created by Hermann Göring, was a Nazi German predatory state institution responsible for liquidating Polish and Jewish businesses in occupied Poland or selling them to German "settlers" from the East for a symbolic fee during World War II. It was staffed by "a veritable stampede" of officials from the Deutsche and Dresdner banks.^[2]

Notes and references

1. Friedrich, Klaus-Peter (ed.); Andrea Löw (asst.) (2011). Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945. Vol. 4: Polen: September 1939 – Juli 1941. München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. pp. 113, 192, 355–359. ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4. OCLC 845244180.
2. Allen, Michael Thad (Fall 2003). "The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property (review)". Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17 (2): 361–363. Retrieved October 20, 2012.