William M. Katin

Hostile Takeovers of Large Jewish Companies, 1933-1935 (eBook, PDF)

Reassessing Aryanization of Jewish-Owned Firms

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978778825
• Artikelnr.: 74846720

Autorenporträt

William M. Katin, PhD, is lecturer at the California State University, San Bernardino.

Inhaltsangabe

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