Parallel Journeys
What do the following lines from Paragraph 14 reveal?
The Nazis now ordered that the victims must pay for the loss of their own property. The bill for broken glass alone was five million marks. Any insurance money that the Jews might have claimed was taken by the government. And because many of the buildings where Jews had their shops were actually owned by Aryans, the Jews as a group had to pay an additional fine βfor their abominable crimes, etc.β So declared Hermann Goring, a high-ranking Nazi who was in charge of the German economy. He set their fine at one billion marks.