From the Mundane Luxury page.
Imagine believing soldiers would steal washing machines of all things lmao. Like just picture some guy lugging one around along with 30+ kg of gear or trying to stuff it into the crew compartment of a BTR-80 along with himself and his squadmates.
It helps when you report your neighbors for being Jewish/homosexuals/slavic/communists/Roma/Jehovah's Witnesses/disabled to the SS who take them away to death camps and you get to steal all their stuff. Especially if they didn't manage to hide their valuables to smuggle into ghettos or concentration camps and you got to take those things for yourself. In some cases, people took over entire businesses, restaurants, or shops from their "undesirable" neighbors.
Would be interesting to see how much wealth transfer the average German got from the extermination. What I want to know is how much it costs to turn the average lib into a murderer. How many Big Macs would it cost? Maybe we can compare it to how much the average Israeli gets and start a MacHitler index or something.
Purchasing Power Parity, but for evil
wealth transfer mostly benefited the upper and earliest members of the nazi party but they used membership in the party as propaganda tool, since you basically "needed" membership to land a "good job" and get promoted. The possibility of getting shit from the dispossession of undesirables was a major factor in the Nazis' getting support.