Profits and Persecution
German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
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2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-77288-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-77288-4 (ISBN)
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What role did German big business play in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust? Profits and Persecution explores the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders instruments of the Nazi regime and then, after the war, falsifiers of the historical record until prompted to change by new commercial calculations.
What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on evidence concerning the roughly one hundred most significant German firms of the Nazi era, Peter Hayes explores how large German corporations dealt with Jews, their property, and their labor. This study unites business history and the history of the Holocaust to consider both the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders complicit in the actions of the Nazi Party. In doing so, it demonstrates how ordinary, familiar thought processes came to serve the ideological purposes of the Third Reich with lethal consequences.
What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on evidence concerning the roughly one hundred most significant German firms of the Nazi era, Peter Hayes explores how large German corporations dealt with Jews, their property, and their labor. This study unites business history and the history of the Holocaust to consider both the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders complicit in the actions of the Nazi Party. In doing so, it demonstrates how ordinary, familiar thought processes came to serve the ideological purposes of the Third Reich with lethal consequences.
Peter Hayes is Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He is the author of the best-selling Why? Explaining the Holocaust (2017), as well as thirteen other books and more than one hundred articles and chapters on the history of the Nazi era. Hayes served for twenty years on the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as its chair from 2014 to 2019.
Part I. Prologue, 1918–1933: 1. Path-dependence; 2. Ambivalence; Part II. Autarky and Armament, 1933–1939/41: 3. Compliance; 4. Monopsony; 5. Dejewification; Part III. Total War, 1939/41–1945: 6. Mobilization; 7. Exploitation; 8. Annihilation; Part IV. Aftermath, 1945–2024: 9. Outcomes; 10. Summary.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-77288-5 / 0521772885 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-77288-4 / 9780521772884 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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