Final Sale in Berlin - The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945

Informationen zum Autor Christoph Kreutzmüller is a curator of the new permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. He has written extensively in the field of the Holocaust, economic and photographic history. His publications include National Economies: Volks-Wirtschaft, Racism and Economy in Europe between the Wars (2015, co-editor Michael Wildt and Moshe Zimmermann) and Fixiert: Fotografische Quellen zur Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden in Europa (2016, with Julia Werner), forthcoming is Dispossession, Plundering German Jewry 1933-1953 (2017, co-editor with Jonathan Zatlin). Together with Hans-Christian Jasch he has just edited The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference (Berghahn, 2017). Klappentext Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its obliteration. Rather than just examining the steps taken by the persecutors, it also tells the stories of Jewish strategies in countering the effects of persecution. In doing so, this book exposes a fascinating paradox where Berlin, serving as the administrative heart of the Third Reich, was also the site of a dense network for Jewish self-help and assertion. Zusammenfassung Reconstructing the fate of more than 8!000 companies! this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its destruction in Nazi Berlin. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: CONTEXT Chapter 1. Berlin Chapter 2. Economy Chapter 3. Jewish Commercial Activity PART II: ATTACKING JEWISH COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY Chapter 4. Violent Persecution Chapter 5. Bureaucratic Persecution Chapter 6. Voyeurs and Profiteers Chapter 7. The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity PART III: ASSERTING JEWISH COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY Chapter 8. Institutional Counter-Strategies Chapter 9. Individual Counter-Strategies Chapter 10. Emigration Chapter 11. Case Studies PART IV Chapter 12. The Deportation of Jewish Businesspeople Summary     Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Kreutzmuller, Christoph Kreutzmüller
• Assisted by: Jefferson S. Chase (Translation), Jane Paulick (Translation)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2015
• EAN: 9781782388128
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-812-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, Genocide History; History: 20th Century to Present