Documentation from the Reichswirtschaftministerium (Reich Ministry of Economy) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1942 The following files are preserved in the collection: - A file dealing with insurance taken out by Jews, 1938-1939, including subjects such as the treatment of insurance claims submitted by Jews after the Kristallnacht riots (including a copy of the "Reichsgesetzblatt" [Reich Legal Gazette] from March 1939 containing the wording of the law on this matter - frame 1451, statistical reports and correspondence from December 1938 regarding the limit on claims pertaining to riot damage submitted to the insurance companies - Frame 1568-1575); attempts of Jews to redeem insurance policies in order to obtain cash, activities of Jewish physicians for insurance companies (Microfilm JM/29529, Frame 1274-1668); - A file dealing with Jewish owned banks, 1938-1942, including subjects such as Aryanization of Jewish banks in Germany and Austria, with legislative guidelines for Aryanization (including editions of "Deutsche Justiz" from April 1941); dismantling of Jewish banks; a senior banker determined to be of Jewish origin; lists of private Jewish banks in Germany (Frames 1703-1708, 1721-1724); use of Jewish emigration funds for the establishment of a factory in Brazil; acquiring a farm for Gestuet Schlenderhahn (raising horses) by a banker from Cologne, who had been accused of contacts and accepting money from Jewish banking families from Cologne (Lammers, the Executive Secretary of Hitler's Office, was involved in this subject, and Hitler himself learned about it), activities of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland ((RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) to liquidate Jewish property, including debts from loans, in 1942 (end of the file). In the file there is much correspondence with the Wirtschaftgruppe private Bankgewerbe and the Reichskommissar fuer das Kreditwesen (Microfilm JM/29529, Frames 1671-2023); - A file dealing with the Allgemeine deutsche Credit-Anstalt Bank in Leipzig, 1936-1939 (Microfilm JM/29529, frame 2027-Microfilm JM/29530, Frame 420); - An additional file dealing with the Allgemeine deutsche Credit-Anstalt Bank in Leipzig, 1940 (Microfilm JM/29530, Frame 423-785); - A file dealing with the demand submitted by Jakob Goldschmidt from Berlin to receive reparations from the Dresdner Bank for damage caused him from the blocking of his account by the bank; in the account there is also financial property he administered as a trustee for other people, and deliberations that went on for years on a compromise with him (that became complicated due to his emigration and the imposition of the "Tax for Escaping from the Reich" on these funds), 1934-1939 (Microfilm JM/29530, Frame 787-964); - File dealing with the municipal banks of Magdeburg (the Magdeburger Stadtbank and the Statdsparkasse zu Magdeburg), 1934-1937 (Microfilm JM/29530, Frame 966-1516); - A file containing a version of the lecture given by Goering regarding Nazi policy towards the Jews after the Kristallnacht riots in 1938; he freely quoted words on the subject told him by Hitler and his deputy Hess, mentioning various examples of the policy on various subjects. The lecture was presented before a group of Party Gauleiter (Microfilm JM/29530, Frame 1518-1555).