00:00During the war, Rosenberg was responsible for a system of organized plunder of both
00:05public and private property throughout the invaded countries of Europe.
00:08In 1940, he organized and directed the Einsatzstab Rosenberg, which plundered museums and libraries,
00:15confiscated art treasures and collections, and pillaged private houses.
00:20His own reports showed the extent of the confiscations.
00:23In Action M, instituted in December 1941, at Rosenberg's suggestion, 69,619 Jewish homes
00:32were plundered in the West, 38,000 of them in Paris alone, and it took 26,984 railroad cars to
00:40transport
00:40the confiscated furnishings to Germany. As of 14 July 1944, more than 21,903 art objects,
00:49including famous paintings and museum pieces, had been seized by the Einsatzstab in the West.
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