Devisenschutzkommando
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The ' (Foreign Exchange Protection Commando), or DSK', was a Nazi special looting unit of handpicked SS soldiers which operated in Belgium, France and the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia. The unit was established in 1940 and operated through the duration of World War II.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Devisenschutzkommando is referenced by 107 other articles, and connects out to France, Belgium and Netherlands.
It is catalogued under topics including Looting in Belgium, Looting in France and Looting in the Netherlands.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- government organization
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Hermann Göring
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- 1940-00-00
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The ' (Foreign Exchange Protection Commando), or DSK', was a Nazi special looting unit of handpicked SS soldiers which operated in Belgium, France and the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia. The unit was established in 1940 and operated through the duration of World War II.
The DSK was nominally charged with overseeing all bank foreign exchange transactions in nations occupied by Nazi Germany, including monitoring bank deposits of currency, financial instruments, and precious metals. Quickly, however, the concept of 'foreign currency transactions' was broadly reinterpreted to mean anything of financial value. In practice, members of the DSK confiscated whatever they thought may be of worth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Devisenschutzkommando” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.