This group consists of sixteen financial credit/accounting slips dating from 30th December 1940 to 29th September 1941, preserved together within a wrapper bearing the name SCHOCKEN. The slips concern payments processed through the Postscheckamt Nürnberg and the Regierungshauptkasse Ansbach (Mittelfranken), whose Nürnberg postal-cheque account was No. 1696. The Schocken connection is historically significant because the famous department-store concern established by the Jewish entrepreneurs Simon and Salman Schocken, including its important Nürnberg branch, had been subjected to Nazi “Aryanisation”; the Schocken family lost control of the business in 1938 and Schocken AG was renamed Merkur AG in 1939. The continued presence of the SCHOCKEN name on material containing records from 1940–41 is therefore noteworthy, although it has not yet been established whether the receipts themselves originated with the former Schocken/Merkur business. Particularly interesting is a 12 Pf Hitler-head postage stamp apparently used not as postage but as an improvised security seal across the wrapper, subsequently crossed through by hand. As the Hitler definitive series was introduced in August 1941, its presence is compatible with the final date of the group, 29th September 1941, and suggests that the sixteen documents were deliberately assembled and secured together at or after that time. There is presently no evidence that the crossing-out of Hitler's portrait carried any political meaning; its most likely purpose was practical, invalidating the stamp for postal use and helping to indicate whether the wrapper had subsequently been disturbed. Ref: 30.12.1940 - 37/1