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===Material gain=== The theft of cash and valuables, collected from the victims of gassing, was conducted by the higher-ranking SS men on an enormous scale. It was a common practice among the concentration camps' top echelon everywhere; two [[Majdanek concentration camp]] commandants, [[Karl-Otto Koch|Koch]] and [[Hermann Florstedt|Florstedt]], were tried and executed by the SS for the same offence in April 1945.<ref name="majdanek-2 Wykaz">{{cite web |url=http://www.majdanek.com.pl/obozy/majdanek/wykaz_sadzonych.html |title=Procesy zbrodniarzy [Trials of war criminals] 1946–1948 |publisher=KL Lublin |work=Wykaz sądzonych członków załogi KL Lublin/Majdanek [Majdanek staff put on trial] |access-date=13 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014093403/http://www.majdanek.com.pl/obozy/majdanek/wykaz_sadzonych.html |archive-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> When the top-ranking officers went home, they would sometimes request a private locomotive from Klinzman and Emmerich{{efn|Rudolf Emmerich and Willi Klinzman were the two native German railwaymen posted at the Treblinka station after the gas chambers went into operation. Their express role was to direct the movement of the [[Holocaust train]]s to the death camp.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=97}}}} at the Treblinka station to transport their personal "gifts" to Małkinia for a connecting train. Then, they would drive out of the camp in cars without any incriminating evidence on their person, and later arrive at Małkinia to transfer the goods.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=116}}{{efn|See [[Franciszek Ząbecki|Ząbecki's]] court testimonies at [[Treblinka trials|Düsseldorf]].{{sfn|S.J. H.E.A.R.T|2007|loc=Trials}}{{sfn|Bryant|2014|p=102}} }} The overall amount of material gain by Nazi Germany is unknown except for the period between 22 August and 21 September 1942, when there were 243 wagons of goods sent and recorded.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=116}} Globocnik delivered a written tally to Reinhard headquarters on 15 December 1943 with the SS profit of [[Reichsmarks|ℛℳ]] 178,745,960.59, including {{cvt|2,909.68|kg|ozt}} of [[gold]], {{cvt|18,733.69|kg|ozt lb}} of [[silver]], {{cvt|1,514|kg|ozt}} of [[platinum]], and 249,771.50 American dollars,{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=116}} as well as 130 diamond solitaires, {{cvt|2,511.87|carat|g|lk=on}} of [[Brilliant (diamond cut)|brilliants]], {{cvt|13,458.62|carat|kg|3}} of diamonds, and {{cvt|114|kg|lb}} of pearls. The amount of loot Globocnik stole is unknown; Suchomel claimed in court to have filled a box with one million Reichsmarks for him.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=117}}
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