'Aryanisation' in Hamburg : the economic exclusion of Jews and the confiscation of their property in Nazi Germany
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'Aryanisation' in Hamburg : the economic exclusion of Jews and the confiscation of their property in Nazi Germany
（Monographs in German history, v. 7）
Berghahn Books, 2002
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'Arisierung' in Hamburg : die Verdrängung der jüdischen Unternehmer 1933-45
"Aryanisation" in Hamburg : the economic exclusion of Jews and the confiscation of their property in Nazi Germany
"Arisierung" in Hamburg : die Verdrängung der jüdischen Unternehmer 1933-1945
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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Sources and other literature
Index
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