Robbery can kill. Long before Auschwitz and Treblinka, tens of
thousands of Jews died of hunger and disease in Warsaw after the
Nazis seized their property and banned them from making a living.
In Warsaw and throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, Holocaust plunder
was not only a product of murder, Levin argues, but also a tool of
murder. On the eve of the Holocaust, Warsaw was the home of the
biggest Jewish community in Europe, some 350,000 Jews. They were a
third of the city's total population and owned up to 40% of its
land. The Nazis systematically seized their property even before
the Ghetto was established and rendered the Jews penniless and
unable to work. Thus tens of thousands starved to death or died of
infectious diseases. As Levin makes clear, the plunder of Jewish
property became not only a product of murder, but also a tool of
murder. Because Hitler decided only in the Spring of 1941 on the
mass murder of the Jews, the Warsaw case demonstrates—at least in
retrospect—how the seizure of property killed even before the
first gas chambers were built. After the Holocaust, the Communist
regime in Poland took advantage of the fact that 90% of the
country's Jews had been murdered to nationalize their private and
communal property without paying any compensation. The vast
majority of this property has never been returned to their lawful
owners despite increasing international efforts to bring this
about.
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