Hostile Takeovers of Large Jewish Companies, 1933-1935 - Reassessing Aryanization of Jewish-Owned Firms

Informationen zum Autor William M. Katin, PhD, is lecturer at the California State University, San Bernardino. Klappentext Opportunism combined with anti-Semitism led non-Nazi businessmen to acquire the largest German-Jewish companies in the period 1933-1935. These hostile takeovers were made possible by the Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank, which recalled loans previously extended to Jewish firms. Thereby Germany's largest banks obtained new loan fees, new supervisory board seats and became the house banks for the new Gentile-owned firms. The German judiciary did not defend Jewish property rights, because judges shared the same conservative mindset. Scholarship has previously not discovered this 1933-1935 paradigm because of a focus on Berlin government or Nazi Party actions, instead of the Jewish companies. In addition, a failure to distinguish between multi-million dollar enterprises and tiny shops caused scholars to emphasize the year 1938, when thousands of mom-and-pop shops became bankrupt. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: How Cheap Purchases of German-Jewish Firms Occurred Chapter Two: History of Research on Cheap Purchases of Jewish Firms Chapter Three: New Approach to Comprehend Aryanizers Chapter Four: Background to Aryanization of the Hermann Tietz Chain Chapter Five: Aryanization of Hermann Tietz Chapter Six: Early Aryanizations Confirming the Hermann Tietz Paradigm Chapter Seven: Conclusion

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• Authors: William M Katin, William M. Katin, William Maurice Katin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781793606822
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-682-2
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory; Lexington Studies in Modern Je; Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, RELIGION / Judaism / History, History of Religion, The Holocaust, Judaism, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, Ashkenazi;Germany;Holocaust Studies;Jewish History, Ashkenazi; Germany; Holocaust Studies; Jewish History