1. Looting on the basis of general but specific legal regulations or special legislation falling within their purview; this includes:

1.1. General confiscations, for example, under the implementing decree No. 11 to the Reich Citizens Act of 25 November 1941. This ordered the forfeiture to the Reich of the property of Jews who had lost their German nationality as a result of residing abroad (including, for example, deportation); or individual measures such as the decree of 17 March 1938 ordering the takeover of the Austrian National Bank by the German Reichsbank.

1.2. Indirect expropriation directed in particular against Jewish people, such as the decree of 16 April 1938 requiring the reporting of Jewish property; or general confiscatory measures such as the law of 29 March 1935 allowing the expropriation of land for the purposes of the Wehrmacht.

1.3. Legal statutes used to push forward with the economic penetration of Austria by the German Reich, e.g. the Bitumen Act (GBlÖ 1938/375).

2. Legal transactions under duress within the framework of general regulations. As an illustration one can mention the practice, which became general without being based on any specific legal norm, of pressurising Jewish people who were on the point of emigration to relinquish their property "voluntarily" to an Emigration Fund set up in Vienna, before they were handed their passports. These assets were later transferred to the "Emigration Fund for Bohemia and Moravia."

3. Police action: this includes all acts of direct and immediate coercion by the police even if carried out under general regulations.

4. Reinterpretation of laws through court rulings. This kind of "creative interpretation" may be illustrated by the case law of the German courts on the non-application of the decree of 7 April 1938 (RGBl. I., 378) which provided some protection against distraint on wages and salaries.

5. Acts which were illegal even under the standards prevailing at the time: this includes all forms of outright theft and robbery, especially the first phase of "aryanisation" after Austria's "Anschluss" in March 1938.