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June 5, 1942:

"The SS reports that 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.
"During a roundup of Jews in Kraków, Poland, SS men brutally torment two men--one who has just one leg and another who had lost his eyesight while fighting for Germany in World War I."

"A long line of Jews winds its way through the streets of Pabianice, Poland, on the way to deportation.
In mid-May 1942 some 4,500 Jews from the town were rounded up and deported to Chelmno, where they were executed.
While the Jews of the town were sent to their deaths, the goods that they took with them to the death camp were sent back to warehouses in Pabianice."

"Bending over their shovels and spades, Hungarian Jews till the muddy Ukrainian soil.
Beginning in 1939, Hungarian Jews not serving in the military had been required to join labor battalions.
This cruel and backbreaking work took on new danger when Jewish units were ordered to the Eastern Front.
There they were mistreated by Axis military personnel and treated as the enemy when captured by the Soviets."

While the Jews of the town were sent to their deaths, the goods that they took with them to the death camp were sent back to warehouses in Pabianice."

I read a book a few months back called Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State. Every time the Nazis conquered a nation, among their primary tasks was to use whatever tools they could - making locals turn in personal property like furniture and toys, forcing them to exchange gold and local currency for newly issued German currency at terrible exchange rates, and many more - to strip the conquered lands of wealth and use it to provide welfare-state benefits to the German population. This was done too to Jews before they were sent to extermination. It was completely consonant with Nazi ideology, and not as widely known as it should be.