High officials of the Quisling government of Norway are accused of misappropriating millions of dollars in cash and valuables from confiscated Jewish property, it is reported today in the Stockholm newspaper Morgen Tidningen.
The paper says that an investigation has disclosed that all sorts of valuables, including furniture, household goods, furs, clothes, and other rationed goods, were taken from homes formerly occupied by Jews and distributed among the acquaintances of the Quisling officials. The puppet government’s state police are charged with stealing any thing of value they could lay their hands on during searches of Jewish premises. It is estimated that during February, 1, 700,000 kronen (nominally $850,000) in cash and about $250,000 in various goods were taken.
Among the prominent persons reported to be involved in the thefts are a member of the cabinet, Rolf Fuglesang, who is secretary of the Nasional Samling, the Quisling party, Police Chief Ramarthinsen and Rolf Holm, Quisling party leader in Oslo county.
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