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List of valuables transferred to the Municipal Pawn Brokerage for "utilization" (sale), including rings, gold watches, jewelry with diamonds, silver watches and tableware, gold dentures, and precious stones

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Reichsbank

Date: 15 September 1942

Literal Title: Second Shipment

Defendant: Walther Funk

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-3948

Citation: IMT (page 9115)

HLSL Item No.: 452853

Notes:The signature is noted as "illegible." See also documents PS 3944, 3947, and 3949. The items transferred were listed with their weight in kilograms for each group.

Trial Issue

Plundering of private property and occupied territories (inc. Reinhardt Ac…

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

PS-3948: Photostat of a request from the Reichsbank to the [Illegible] agency re; evaluation of gold and jewelry

Red Series Doc Descriptions

PS-3948: Draft of a letter from the Reichsbank main accounts office Berlin to the municipal pawn office, 15 September 1942, with list of simultaneously delivered valuables and requesting transfer of equivalent sum of money

To the Municipal Pawn Brokerage Div. Ill—Central Office Berlin N 4, Elsaesser St. 74
September 15, 1942
Second Shipment .
We submit to you the following valuables with the request for the best possible utilization:
Item 1: k9 rough kg gross
247 rings of platinum and silver with stones...... 0,911.0 0,950
Item Z:
154 gold watches .................................. 3,413.5 8,614
42 gold watch chains and watch pendants........... 0,685.5
245 silver watch chains and watch pendants......... 4,047.5
Item S:
207 earrings, with stones believed to be diamonds. . . 0,337]
1601 earrings of gold ............................ 1,425 ] 2,694
721 earrings of silver ........................... 0,759J
Item U:
Item 5:
41 bracelets and wrist bands, said to be of gold with
precious and semi-precious stones ............... 0,512
9 bracelets and wrist bands ....................... 0,161
13 brooches with stones said to be diamonds......... 0,085
55 brooches, pins, and clips of gold................ 0,226 5,650
99 gold pendants .................................... 0,379 '
5 pendants with diamonds .......................... 0,013
116 bracelets and wrist bands, silver................ 0,761
Diverse brooches, pins, clips of silver.............. 1,187
Diverse pendants of silver........................... 0,902
Item 6: '
132 jewel rings with stones said to be diamonds.. 0,381]
254 jewel rings with various stones ............. 0,730^
Item 7:
324 silver wrist watches ........................ 6,622
Item 8:
784 silver pocket watches ........................54,420
Item 9:
12 silver candelabras 170 silver goblets and containers 99 silver boxes and cases 127 silver spoons, forks, and knives 18 silver money purses and pocketbooks 43 diverse articles of silver
. 26,950
1,274
6,809
55,435
28,295
677
3948-PS
Item 10:
5 necklaces and collieres with stones said to be
diamonds .........................................
48 necklaces and collieres of gold...................
5 necklaces and collieres with pearls, and 49 loose
pearls ...........................................
317 necklaces and collieries of silver . . . .
5 necklaces and collieres with garnets.............
1 collar pin with stone said to be diamond........
13 collar pins of gold ..............................
3 collar pins of silver ..........................
2 studs with stone said to be diamond.............
23 studs of gold ....................................
60 studs of silver ..................................
*160 diverse dentures, partly of gold..................
Various parts of jewels and watch cases..............
187 pearls
4 stones said to be diamonds 10 precious and semi-precious stones] kg. gross 27 corals
0,038.5
0,572.5
0,082.5
1,778.5
0,085.0
0,001.5
0,019.5
0,004.0
0,002.5
0,092
0,211
0,973
1,809
0,071.0
5,788
We should like itemized statements for the individual items and further request that the amount be transmitted by check as
soon as possible to the "Precious Metal"
[*This line is crossed out in original.]
["Edelmetall"] account. Deutsche Reichsbank Hauptkasse [Signature illegible]

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