Sklarek scandal

The Sklarek scandal was a political scandal which started in 1927 in Weimar Germany. It primarily involved three brothers, Leo, Max and Willy Sklarek who were arrested for fraud in the autumn of that year coming to trial on 13 October 1931.[1] As with the previous Barmat scandal, the brothers were Jewish, a fact which was likewise exploited by propagandists of the emergent Nazi Party, who used the scandal to attack Jewish people in general, democracy and the Weimar state.[1]

Multi-volume indictment of the Sklaren court case

In 1926, the Sklarek brothers bought the stock of the clothing distribution company, with which the municipality of Berlin dressed its agents during the First World War. This relationship was continued in the postwar years. However, the company presented a series of false invoices. When the fraud was discovered, the damages were estimated at over 10 million marks.

References

Kreutzmüller, Christoph; Wildt, Michael; Tsimerman, Mosheh (2015). National Economies: Volks-Wirtschaft, Racism and Economy in Europe Between the Wars (1918-1939/45). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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[KWT-1] Kreutzmüller, Christoph; Wildt, Michael; Tsimerman, Mosheh (2015). National Economies: Volks-Wirtschaft, Racism and Economy in Europe Between the Wars (1918-1939/45). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.