Language:
German
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Juden in Deutschland
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1991) 390-405
Keywords:
Warburg, Max M.,
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
Max Warburg (1867-1946), head of the banking firm M.M. Warburg & Co. in Hamburg, a proud Jew and a patriotic German, attempted in May-June 1933 to soften the blow of the Nazi anti-Jewish economic policies. Analyzes a draft proposal composed following a meeting of Jewish financiers and German industrialists convened by Warburg in Berlin in June 1933. The proposal, to be sent to an undesignated government office, was written by the Jewish participants who emphasized the detrimental nature of the Nazi anti-Jewish measures to the German economy. It agreed that too many Jews were in prominent positions, and that a change was necessary, but it would require time and organization. In the interim, Jews should be allowed to work in some professions. The non-Jewish participants refused to sign the first draft; a second, briefer version was also rejected. The project was then shelved. Discusses, also, a conversation between Otto Wagener and Max Warburg in early 1933, recorded by Wagener in 1958. Although not completely reliable, this account reflects the direction of Warburg's thinking in 1933 - to find some form of Jewish accommodation with the Nazi government through an agreement with German industrialists.
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