Alexander Palfinger

Alexander Palfinger was the first official in charge of the "Transferstelle" in the Lodz Ghetto, and afterwards in the Warsaw Ghetto. This agency was in charge of the traffic of goods entering and leaving the ghetto. He was succeeded by Max Georg Bischof. "Given the mentality of the Jews," he argued, only the "most extreme exigency" would force them to part with their hidden valuables in return for food. "A rapid dying out of the Jews is for us a... More

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