This chapter argues that dispossession is a central aspect of the Holocaust that remains poorly understood. It is understandable that it was long neglected, since understanding mass murder was the primary goal, and the financial and economic story of expropriation was a complex one. However, early books by Frank Bajohr and Martin Dean helped stake out the field, and international legal actions over Swiss banks and German companies also reinforced its importance. The chapter explores the mixture of law and violence that was used to assault Jewish businesses and property, with the emphasis often on the latter. Jewish businesses were able to hold out longest in Berlin, but the pogrom of November 1938, followed by orgiastic looting, was the beginning of the end. The desire to get Jews out of the country was often in conflict with the aim of expropriating them, but once emigration was no longer viable, expropriation and exclusion accelerated, converging in systematic theft and murder. Even then despoliation remained an autonomous but integral aspect.