'Aryanisation' in Hamburg

The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of Their Property in Nazi Germany
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-57181-485-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 356 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: Monographs in German History

Much has been written about Nazi anti-Jewish policies, about atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the behavior of non-Jewish Germans. This book, published to wide acclaim in its original edition, shows how many "ordinary Germans" became involved in what they saw as a legally sanctioned process of ridding Germany and Europe of their Jews. Bajohr's study offers a major contribution to our understanding of this process in that it focusses on one of its most important aspects, namely the gradual exclusion of Jews from economic life in Hamburg, one of the largest centers of Jewish life in Europe and one in which many of them had been part of the Hanseatic patriciate before 1933. The sad conclusion of this study is that it was not necessarily antisemitism that motivated "ordinary burghers" but unrestrained greed that led them to betray their former co-citizens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bajohr, Frank

Bajohr, F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Destruction or 'Aryanisation' of Jewish Businesses in Nazi Germany

Chapter 1. Antisemitism 'from below' during the first phase of National Socialist rule

Chapter 2. Decision-makers and trends in National Socialist anti-Jewish policy in Hamburg

Chapter 3. Jewish businessmen: economic situation and individual and political strategies

Chapter 4. Transition to the systematic 'de-Judaisation' of the Hamburg economy, 1936-37

Chapter 5. 'Aryanisation' under apparently legal conditions (April-November 1938)

Chapter 6. Selling off and liquidating enterprises and the race for personal enrichment: 'De-Judaisation' and 'Aryanisation' from November 1938

Chapter 7. Looking for profit: beyond the city limits

Conclusion

Register of Jewish firms that were 'Aryanised' or liquidated in 1938-39

Tables

Abbreviations

Sources and other literature

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bajohr, Frank
Frank Bajohr is a historian at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg and lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg. At present he is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Frank Bajohr is a historian at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg and lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg. At present he is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.