 The crimes escalated throughout their rule and culminated in the Holocaust from about 1939 on as Jews in Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia were isolated and deported to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps, Nazi ghettos and death camps.Their remaining personal property such as wedding rings were stolen before their murder.A first law for the restitution of private persons was the "Bundesergänzungsgesetz zur Entschädigung für Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung" (BErG) of September 18, 1953.