Networks of Nazi Persecution

Gerald D. Feldman (1937-2007) was Professor of History and Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His special fields of interest were 20th-century German history, and he had a special interest in business history, most recently authoring a biography of Hugo Stinnes, participating in the history of the Deutsche Bank, and writing a history of the Allianz Insurance Company in the Nazi period.

"The Berghahn series Studies on War and Genocide, in which this collection appears, has immeasurably enriched the English language scholarship available to scholars and students of genocide and, in particular, the Holocaust. This particular collection is no exception, and is another excellent, if contentious, addition to and summary of contemporary Holocaust scholarship.This is then a valuable collection that confirms some of the accepted ideas of Holocaust historiography, while also revising others. It will give access for the first time to many students and scholars to some perspectives not previously available in the English language. The diversity of those perspectives is testament to the vigour of contemporary Holocaust scholarship."—Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Holocaust as Division-of-Labor-Based Crime—Evidence and Analytical ChallengesGerald D. Feldman and Wolfgang SeibelPART I: RIVALRY AND COMPETITIONChapter 1. Introduction to Rivalry and CompetitionChristian GerlachChapter 2. The SS Security Service and the Gestapo in the National Socialist Persecution of the Jews 1933–1939Wolfgang DierkerChapter 3. “Aryanization” and the Role of the German Banks, 1933–1938Dieter ZieglerChapter 4. The Looting of Jewish Property and Franco-German Rivalry, 1940–1944Philippe VerheydeChapter 5. Seizure of Jewish Property and Inter-Agency Rivalry in the Reich and in the Occupied Soviet TerritoriesMartin C. DeanChapter 6. The Polycratic Nature of Art Looting: The Dynamic Balance of the Third ReichJonathan PetropoulosChapter 7. The Holocaust and CorruptionFrank BajohrPart II: "SMOOTH COOPERATION"Chapter 8. Introduction to “Smooth Cooperation”Gerhard Hirschfeld and Wolfgang SeibelChapter 9. The Looting of Jewish Property and the German Financial AdministrationAlfons KenkmannChapter 10. Organized Looting: The Nazi Seizure of Jewish Property in the Netherlands, 1940–1945Gerard AaldersChapter 11. Perpetrator Networks and the Holocaust. The Spoliation of Jewish Property in France, 1940–1944Marc Olivier BaruchChapter 12. "Ethnic Resettlement" and Inter-Agency Cooperation in the Occupied Eastern TerritoriesIsabel HeinemannChapter 13. Der "reibungslose" Holocaust? The German Military and Civilian Implementation of the "Final Solution" in Ukraine, 1941–1944Wendy LowerPART III: DECENTRAL INITIATIVE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATIONChapter 14. A Bureaucratic Holocaust: Toward a New ConsensusMicheal Thad AllenChapter 15. Local Initiatives, Central Coordination: German Municipal Administration and the HolocaustWolf GrunerChapter 16. The Reichskristallnacht and the Insurance Industry: The Politics of Damage ControlGerald D. FeldmanPART IV: "STRUCTURE", "AGENCY", AND THE LOGIC OF RADICALIZATIONChapter 17. More than Just a Metaphor: the Network Concept and Its Potential in Holocaust ResearchJörg RaabChapter 18. Restraining or Radicalizing? Division of Labor and Persecution EffectivenessWolfgang SeibelNotes on ContributorsIndex