I thought I’d share an email from Evan that resulted from a conversation he and I had about the gold teeth found at Billi’s house, and their worth …<\/p>\n
From: Evan Stone
\nSent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:13 PM
\nTo: Chere Thomas
\nSubject: RE: Gold Teeth – $7,500<\/p>\n
So let’s assume that [$7,500]<\/em> represents gold teeth from 100 patients.<\/p>\n Let’s also assume Nazis killed in their death camps (excluding battle deaths – teeth weren’t harvested in most battlefields but were in the death camps) 10,000,000 people, although all estimates are higher.<\/p>\n 10,000,000 divided by 100 = 100,000… multiplied by $7,500 = $750,000,000. Discount it back to 1940, and you’re probably around $200,000,000 – a fifth of a billion dollars, just for teeth.<\/p>\n How about wedding bands, rings, earrings, family jewels for gold content?<\/p>\n How about all their real property investments? (not all victims were peasants, ya know)<\/p>\n How about all their personal property, like stocks, bonds, silver, china, fine art collections and even mundane things like furniture and furnishings?<\/p>\n How about all their bank accounts?<\/p>\n Forget the peasants and poor people, but if you assume that only 1,000,000 of the ten million victims were people of some degree of wealth and had total assets of $500,000 today (not a huge amount, as I’m sure you’ll agree), the number is $500,000,000,000. Discount that by the same %age for 1940 dollars, and you’re at $133,000,000,000. Think the Holocaust (including Jews and all others killed in camps, including liberals, communists, gays, physically\/mentally disabled, political opponents, professors, intelligentsia, etc.) was a good money deal?<\/p>\n – Evan<\/p>\n It’s always interesting – our conversations. This is just a peek at how one small discussion can lead to an enormous topic in the little world where I work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I thought I’d share an email from Evan that resulted from a conversation he and I had about the gold teeth found at Billi’s house, and their worth … From: Evan Stone Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:13 PM To: Chere Thomas Subject: RE: Gold Teeth – $7,500 So let’s assume that [$7,500] represents gold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1435.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}