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Dispossession : plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953
Title
Dispossession : plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953 / Edited by Christoph Kreutzmüller and Jonathan R. Zatlin.
ISBN
9780472126934
0472126938
9780472132034
Publication
Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 432 pages) : illustrations (10 tables, 6 halftones).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussions surrounding it, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. As such, the volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts. The essays examine the confiscatory taxation of Jewish property, the looting of art and confiscation of gold, the role of German freight forwarders in property theft, salesmen and dispossession in the retail world, theft from the elderly, and the complicity of the banking industry, as well as the reach of the practice beyond German borders.
Variant and related titles
Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953
UMPEBC 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 11, 2021
Series
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-380) and index.
Contents
I. Dispossession on a Macroeconomic Scale. 1. A Jew-Free Marketplace: The Ideologies and Economics of Thievery / Jonathan Wiesen
2. Financial Destruction: Confiscatory Taxation of Jewish Property and Income in Nazi Germany / Albrecht Ritschl
3. The "Legal" Theft of Jewish Assets: The German Gold Discount Bank (Dego) / Christine Schoenmakers
II. Dispossession by Sector. 4. Jewish-owned Shoe Shops, Company Representatives, and the Daily Business of Dispossession / Pamela E. Swett
5. Taking Advantage: German Freight Forwarders and Property Theft / Johannes Klaas Beermann
6. Banking on Emigration: Reconsidering the Warburg Bank's Late Surrender, Schacht's Protective Hand, and Other Myths about Jewish Banks in the "Third Reich" / Dorothea Hauser
III. Dispossession during the War. 7. The Ruse of Retirement: Eichmann, the Heimeinkaufsverträge and the Dispossession of the Elderly / Jonathan R. Zatlin
8. Identifying "Jewish Assets" in France / Tal Bruttmann
9. Contested Dispossession: The Netherlands / Christoph Kreutzmüller
10. Plundering: Dispossession and Corruption in the Concentration Camp System / Stefan Hördler IV. Dispossession and Restitution. 11. Restitution, Memory, and Denial: Assessing the Legacy of Dispossession in Postwar Germany / Benno Nietzel
12. The Costs and Limits of Making Good / Mark Roseman
13. Art Dealers and Their Networks in Nazi Germany and Beyond / Jonathan Petropoulos
14. Dark Facets of "Appropriation": Grave Robbery at a Nazi Extermination Camp in Poland / Zuzanna Dziuban.
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