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Really good question. As you must already know, the Jews were encouraged by the gestapo to bring their valuables with them when being arrested, supposedly to have to buy food and of course they were searched and all their jewelry etc. were confiscated immediately distribution of this (after

the SS guards took their fill for personnel gain) was melted down and put in Swiss gold accounts by the Nazis. Evita Peron got her hands of some of it on her famous trip to Europe, which was a payoff for Argentina's willingness to take in wanted Nazis after the war. There are still to this day questionable Swiss bank accounts. The financial gain at the expense of the Jews was enormous.

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The Nazis took all the valuables.

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The victims' personal possessions were seized by the SS, sorted and sold or recycled. Some of the proceeds were used to pay for the Holocaust. (There was no budget for the Holocaust).

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During the war, the Nazis stole gold, jewelry, and other valuables from the millions of Jews they murdered. The Germans needed a way to place these commodities in the international market so that they could use the money they received in exchange for their war effort. The Swiss helped facilitate the exchange in addition to holding Nazi accounts. Many speculate that some of the gold that the Swiss accepted were the dental gold and wedding rings taken from Jews at the camps.

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The Nazis sold the stuff and used the money to help them fight their war. Some was kept by members of the SS, many of whom were corrupt.

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In some cases, the Nazis took them. In other cases, the non-Jewish neighbors took them. Many of these possessions have never been returned.

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