This protects creditors from a company being liquidated through dividends. Following this, Auto Union AG assets were liquidated without compensation. Items for sale are often surplus needed to be liquidated. Alternatively, the company may be voluntarily liquidated. The credit union voluntarily liquidated in 2015. On 5 November, TPD was formally liquidated at a creditors' meeting. Visium subsequently liquidated several of its funds, and wound down operations. In 2011, the chain was liquidated in bankruptcy. Thereafter, state administrations were liquidated and replaced by Soviet cadres, followed by mass repression. Stores not purchased by Transform were immediately liquidated. The branch was liquidated in 1478 with staggering losses. Navistar was also liquidated in its shareholding. In 1943, the ghettos were either liquidated or turned into concentration camps. They are liquidated inconspicuously in extermination camps. The fund liquidated and dissolved in early 2000.