Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
26 (1998) 173-201
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
Abstract:
States that Aryanization was one of the most mammoth property transfers in modern times. Although political considerations directed this policy, economic motives shaped the concrete forms that Aryanization took on. After 1933, the Nazi state created a machinery which helped it not only to compel Jews to sell their businesses but also to divert a lion's share of the proceeds into the coffers of the Reich. Taking Hamburg as an example, shows how the expropriation of Jewish property was implemented in 1938. The Aryanization and the subsequent "utilization" of Jewish properties served also to enrich party officials, many rank-and-file acquirers, and even some foreign consulary workers in Hamburg. In 1941-42, when the deportation of Jews began, the Nazi authorities managed, through distributions and auctions, to make the entire city population "beneficiaries" of the Holocaust.
Note:
See also in Hebrew.
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Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" II (2004).
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