The Voelkische Bank, established and supported by the Anti-Semitic Voelkische Partei, collapsed. Deposits and valuables disappeared from the bank’s safes and thousands of patriotic and Anti-Semitic Germans who had placed their confidence in this institution, suffered enormous losses. The director of the bank, Herr Bruss disappeared.
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