Attached to the "Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg", starting in early 1942 the M-Aktion looted approximately 70,000 homes of French, Belgian, and Dutch Jews who had either fled or had been deported.
The German staff of the office included about 80 male and 30 female officials and employees who belonged to the "Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories."
"The task of the internees in Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano (technically sub-camps of Drancy) was to unload, sort, and crate for shipment to Germany property the Germans pillaged from Jewish apartments in Paris and (to a lesser extent) other cities in France".
[15][16][17][18][19] The property looted from the Jews was collected in eleven "Reich camps" as reserves or sold directly to "air raid victims".
Alfred Rosenberg, who also became "Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories" as of July 1941, wanted to furnish German administrative offices in the East with the confiscated furniture and other items.
[21] Many of the belongings seized from Jews were transferred to Germans who had lost their homes in air raid, war-disabled, large families and newlyweds.