Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi economic war against the Jews : the expropriation of Jewish-owned property
Author:
ISBN: 0521803292 0511012187 0521027306 0511047959 0511511876 0511152701 0511119550 1280159456 0511302134 1107123259 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial institution, played an important role in the expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises during the Nazi dictatorship, both in the existing territories of Germany, and in the area seized by the German army during World War II. In this 2001 book Harold James uses new and previously unavailable materials, many from the bank's own archives, to examine policies which led to the eventual genocide of European Jews. How far did the realization of the vicious and destructive Nazi ideology depend on the acquiescence, the complicity, and the cupidity of existing economic institutions, and individuals? In response to the traditional view that business co-operation with the Nazi regime was motivated by profit, this book closely examines the behaviour of the bank and its individuals to suggest other motivations. No comparable study exists of a single company's involvement in the economic persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany.

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by