After reading various books, and running around Germany for years and years....I've come to a unique theory over the Nazis and Jews. It doesn't quiet fit the normal beliefs or political history.....but it might make more sense than what most people suggest.
In the early 1930s....there were around 500,000 Jews....more or less. The German population in the same period? Around sixty-five million.
It's a curious thing, as you wander around Germany, and note properties, farms, houses, and businesses which were Jewish owned or operated. There are few books over the success rate of German Jews in business, agriculture, banking, hotels, or manufacturing. But you tend to notice an awful lot of Jewish families that made it successfully.
So my unique theory is this.....it was more of a redistribution effort, than anything else.
You gaze at Jewish farms, that were emptied out in the mid-1930s, and became German owned over the next couple of years. Jewish flower shops. Jewish bakeries. Jewish-owned industry operations. Jewish-owned coffee establishments. The list goes on and on.
Each one of these....went through a redistribution phase. They were owned and operated by Germans. No one ever came back....to lay claim to the business, farm, or industry lost.
A unique social experiment? Maybe.
Some Germans will challenge my suggestion....but I'd suggest that with Nazi-appointed judges in the right places.....most every Jewish owned home and business....moved into a transferable status. It was a simple procedure.....court papers drawn....the right people lined up....ownership fixed by a redistribution phase.
I came to this unique idea today while walking through a local suburb of Wiesbaden....where Jewish stones were laid out on the street to note a house there at this address. It was a nice house....especially for 1942 when they were taken. The income level? Left in question of course. But it wasn't a standard house....this Jewish gentleman and his wife were in the upper class. The house ownership? I would suggest that it went through several court actions, and quietly became someone's property within a year or two. It's probably been sold six to eight times since WW II ended.
All for redistribution? Yeah, it could be just that simple. You can figure from the 500,000 Jews in Germany....at least 100,000 homes, and perhaps 20,000 farms. Toss in the banks, the business fronts, and the industrial operations.....and there's a fair chunk of German capital and assets that went to some German in line. Redistribution.
It would be a curious thing to line up the German census of 1925, and gaze across ownerships of shops, businesses, and homes of Jews. It might take a year or two, with a dozen people....but I doubt if any other conclusion could be achieved....other than a redistribution effort.
Just my two cents on the subject.
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