Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2006) 85-112
Schlagwort(e):
Commerzbank
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish property
Kurzfassung:
Examines the relations of German banks with their Jewish customers during the Nazi period, based on the archives of the Commerzbank. Until December 1938, Jews were profitable customers, because of the financial transactions connected with Aryanization, emigration, and the payment of special taxes and fines. But from the end of 1938, banks were saddled with the thankless task of administering blocked accounts according to intricate and constantly changing bureaucratic regulations. Any payments beyond a small monthly allowance (e.g. for medical care) had to be approved; thus, bank employees became involved in the most intimate details of their customers' lives. With the onset of deportations, bank accounts of Jews "living permanently abroad" fell to the state; their banks received full information about the transports and knew there was no risk that these customers would ever claim their assets. Concludes that the banks knew about the fate of the customers they had grown to know so intimately, and they too participated in the Holocaust.
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