Instructions on the handling of goods that were seized during the anti-Jewish action (of November 1938), according to their value and whether or not the owner is known

Copy of a Copy.
Secret state police State police station Darmstadt
Darmstadt, 7. Dec. 1938 Wilhelm - Glaessing - Str. 21
File No. II B 4 8521/38
To the
SS - Section
Kassel.
Subject: Treatment of articles Secured during Protest Action against Jews.
Ref: nil.
Enclosures: nil.
By order of the Prime Minister General Field Marshal Goering, the Secret State Police Department, Berlin, has issued the following orders regarding articles which were confiscated and secured:
1. The following applies to such articles, where the owner
can still be established:
a. Bonds [WertpapiereJ, cash, jewelry, and articles for common use of high value, are to be listed, stating the owner, the value or estimated value, and reported to the competent State Police Department. Bonds, cash and jewelry, the value of which is less than 1.000. - RM are to be returned to their owner against receipt. This also applies to articles of common use, and objects of higher estimated value if proof exists that the owner will emigrate in the near future. Contact must first be made, however, with the appropriate agency of the President of the Finance Department. My decision must be obtained if particularly high values are involved.
b. Food and perishable articles of common use to the value of not more than 1.000. - RM, are to be handed, against receipt, to the competent local agencies of the Retail Trade concerned, for further sales. Only such food and articles of common use are excepted, where it can be proved that they belong to an Aryan business owner. These articles will be returned directly to the owners against receipt.
c. Stocks of clothing are to be returned to the owners after consultation with local agencies of the retail trade concerned.
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2. For articles the owners of which can no longer be ascertained, the following applies:
a. Bonds, cash and articles of common use of high value (motor cars, furs and gowns) etc., will be delivered to the competent local agencies of the Finance President, against receipt. Lists will be submitted in duplicate.
b. Food and perishable articles of common use will be transferred to the competent local National Socialist Welfare (NSV) agencies against receipt, for the purpose of distribution under their own authority.
c. Where articles have already been handed to the National Socialist Welfare (NSV) under para 2(a), receipt on this transaction will also be submitted.
I draw your attention to the fact that delivery of the articles must be carried out in co-operation with the competent State Police Departments. For the district of the 83rd SS troop this will be the State Police Department Giessen. Duplicate receipts will be submitted to the competent State Police Department, regarding any valuables which have been delivered directly to any of the Service Departments mentioned above.
According to reports available here, it is likely that the appropriate notification has already been circulated by the office of the Reich Leader SS.
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SS - Sergeant.