Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism

This book gives a detailed account of how two major Austrian banks profited from their service to the Nazi regime.

List of contents

Preface Hartmut Berghoff; Introduction Peter Hayes; Part I. The Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein: 1. Ownership, organization, and personnel of the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein, 1938-45; 2. The Creditanstalt, its Jewish customers, and Aryanization; 3. An expanding Creditanstalt in an expanding German empire; Part II. The Länderbank Wien AG in the National Socialist Period: 4. The Mercurbank, the Länderbank Wien, and the Anschluss, 1933-9: the role of the Dresdner Bank; 5. The Länderbank in the Second World War.

About the author

Gerald D. Feldman (1937–2007) was one of the pre-eminent historians of Germany of his generation. He joined the history department at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963 and spent his entire career there. His numerous publications include the seminal study The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914–1924 (1993). In the later years of his career, Feldman focused on the activities of private companies during the Nazi era and their involvement in the regime's economic policies. He served as an advisor to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States. An active supporter of European-American scholarly dialogue, Feldman participated in the founding of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and was the group's president at the time of his death.Peter Hayes is the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University. He has written widely on German industry during the Nazi era. His books include Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (2000) and From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (2007).

Summary

This book gives a detailed account of how two major banks - the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the Länderbank Wien - profited from their service to the Nazi regime. It traces their involvement in the dispossession of Jewish business owners and in financing industrial firms vital to the Third Reich's war effort.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald D Feldman, Gerald D. Feldman, Gerald D. (University of California Feldman, Feldman Gerald D.
• Assisted by: Peter Hayes (Introduction)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107001657
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00165-7
• No. of pages: 587
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute; Publications of the German Historical Institute; Publications of the German His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; austria, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Banking, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)