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Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953
Christoph Kreutzmüller and Jonathan R. Zatlin, Editors
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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, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. This 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.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Possession and Dispossession
I. Dispossession on a Macroeconomic Scale
1. A Jew-Free Marketplace: The Ideologies and Economics of Thievery
2. Fiscal Destruction: Confiscatory Taxation of Jewish Property and Income in Nazi Germany
3. The “Legal” Theft of Jewish Assets: The German Gold Discount Bank (Dego)
II. Dispossession by Sector
4. Jewish-owned Shoe Shops, Company Representatives, and the Daily Business of Dispossession
5. Taking Advantage: German Freight Forwarders and Property Theft
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”
III. Dispossession during the War
7. The Ruse of Retirement: Eichmann, the Heimeinkaufsverträge and the Dispossession of the Elderly
8. Identifying “Jewish Assets” in France
9. Contested Dispossession: The Netherlands
10. Administered Plundering: Dispossession and Corruption in the Concentration Camp System
IV. Dispossession and Restitution
11. Restitution, Memory, and Denial: Assessing the Legacy of Dispossession in Postwar Germany
12. The Costs and Limits of Making Good
13. Art Dealers and Their Networks in Nazi Germany and Beyond
14. Dark Facets of “Appropriation”: Grave Robbery at a Nazi Extermination Camp in Poland
Place Grenette, Grenoble city-center, in the mid-1930s. Several “Jewish shops” stood there, such as L’innovation, in the center of the image, and Chaussures André, partially visible on the far right. (Postcard, author’s personal collection.)
The shop La Providence in the mid-1920s, owned by the Troujman family, one of the leading families in the small Jewish community of Grenoble. (Postcard, author’s personal collection.)
The shop La Providence in the mid-1920s, owned by the Troujman family, one of the leading families in the small Jewish community of Grenoble. (Postcard, author’s personal collection.)
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