The Aryanization of Private Banks in the Third Reich. by Ingo Kohler

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-76662-3
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE

Buch, Englisch, 455 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: Publications of the German His

There was scarcely a branch of economy of the Weimar Republic in which Jews were more prominent than private banking. The exclusion of Jewish bankers from the economic life of the Third Reich thus had deep repercussions on the German financial industry. This study uses the example of the private banking sector to examine the process of Aryanization in all its complexity - from the manifold discrimination at the outset; to the sale, usually under duress and typically at reduced prices, of Jewish-owned businesses to non-Jews; and finally, to the confiscation of residual assets by the Nazi state. The Aryanization of Private Banks in the Third Reich details several types of transactions and business procedures used to transfer commercial properties and considers the interests, motives and actions of both Jewish sellers and 'Aryan' purchasers. The book also discusses postwar restitutions and traces the often deficient legal proceedings after 1945 that sought to correct the injustices done to Jewish business owners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keohler, Ingo

Köhler, Ingo

Kohler, Ingo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. From the banking crisis to the banking inquest: prehistory 1924–34; 2. Background and the course of the repression: 1933–9; 3. Aryanizations and liquidations: a comparative case study analysis; 4. The restitution of 'Aryanization damages' in the private banking sector after the Second World War; 5. Aryanization and restitution in the private banking industry: a summary.

Über Autor(innen)

Köhler, Ingo
Ingo Köhler is Assistant Professor of Economic and Social History at Georg August University Göttingen.