said one of the “experts” in the Transferstelle. The Jewish worker will not be able to work with such prices, they believe. The German merchant pays in marks; he is restricted by his rates, which have to be further lowered for the Jews. Although this last point is somewhat preferential, labour costs are still not uneconomical, taking into account the price of food in Warsaw.
Thus, despite all the fuss, transactions with merchants from the Reich, who, after all, also want to make profit (in these conditions primarily on labour), rarely come to fruition. It is not known if the Jewish worker, who wants to work at all costs, is happy that the Jewish economic institutions defend his interests so stubbornly and fundamentally.
Meanwhile . . .
Local (Aryan) companies, which pay “only” in zlotys, do great business on the Jews and with the Jews, profitable to the extent that cash comes in advance.
Which currency is therefore better: the German mark or the issue zloty? . . .
[3] At Grzybowska Street 3, there is a small factory, T. Zemsz, which manufactures stove-pipe elbows. As it happens, they have a machine that is the only such piece of equipment not only in Warsaw, but in the entire General Government. For a long time, the factory has been watched closely by a company from Łódź (Litzmannstadt),524 which learned of its existence through some unknown channels. As is usual under such circumstances, the machine is confiscated. Only after the intervention of the Department of Production, the repossession is annulled (in February–March 1941). The factory—again through unknown channels—begins to work for the St. Nowicki company on Młynarska Street, which opens a branch at Grzybowska Street 3, under the marquis “Aryan Company”, but (surprisingly) the director of the branch is a sectional commander of the Jewish Order Service. Nowicki works “directly” for the Wehrmacht (Heeresunterkunft Verwaltungsstelle and Gereitlager der Luftwaffe). Every day, at least 1,000 elbows leave Mrs Toba Zemsz’s factory (October–November 1941). But the Łódź company is dead set against maintaining the factory. It appeals to the Transferstelle, which in turn requests confirmation that the factory indeed works for the Wehrmacht. When it turns
