Profits and Persecution

German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-30
Mått:160 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521772884

Utforska kategorier

Affärsetik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

'In a masterful synthesis of current scholarship, Peter Hayes shows how the German business community cooperated with the Nazi regime for multiple reasons: partially-overlapping political values; a near total absence of anti-antisemitic sentiments; but above all the perceived need not to be outdone by economic rivals in the race for profits, spoils, and government favor. Within the framework of Germany's directed economy, the business community became increasingly complicit in the atrocities of the Nazi regime, including ultimately the despoiling of Jews, the lethal exploitation of forced and slave labor, and genocide. As Hayes concludes, when the German business community faced Nazism's 'corrupting mix of compulsion and temptation, controls and opportunity,' then sadly 'rational calculation served Nazi criminality.'' Christopher R. Browning, author of Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers

Innehållsförteckning

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.