Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953
ISBN-10
0472132032
ISBN-13
9780472132034
Series
Dispossession
Category
History
Pages
402
Language
English
Published
2020-09-04
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Authors
Christoph Kreutzmüller, Jonathan R Zatlin

Description

"This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussions surrounding it, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. As such, the volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts. The essays examine the confiscatory taxation of Jewish property, the looting of art and confiscation of gold, the role of German freight forwarders in property theft, salesmen and dispossession in the retail world, theft from the elderly, and the complicity of the banking industry, as well as the reach of the practice beyond German borders"--

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