Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Business in the Age of Extremes
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2013) 189-203
Keywords:
Jewish property
;
Aryanization
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
Contends that the ongoing historiographical discussion concerning the dispossession of Europe's Jews under Nazi control should be viewed in the context of Europeanization of the Holocaust (as a counterpoint to its Americanization). Notes that expropriation of Jewish property took place throughout almost all of Europe, regardless of the form of rule and the degree of dependence on Germany. The initiatives in the dispossession were mostly local, and the motivations behind them varied between the drive for self-enrichment and economic antisemitism, reinterpreting Jewish property in particular as "plundered national property". Proposes a conceptual model for understanding the expropriation process, in which an interplay of the two factors "Entgrenzung" and "Begrenzung" play a crucial role. "Entgrenzung" meant removal of borders and restrictions, permitting the process of dispossession to spread beyond the Third Reich to the rest of Europe. "Begrenzung" meant imposing of borders or limits, defining the scope of expropriation, in particular a definition of which categories of "Jews" were to be dispossessed and which not, and which private companies were to be regarded as "Jewish" and thus liable to expropriation.
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