Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,2 (2002) 217-242
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish property
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
Traces the development of the Nazi denaturalization policy from 1933 to November 1941, when the Eleventh Decree was promulgated. Both Nazi racial policy and growing interest in confiscation of Jewish property motivated the intensification of this process during this period. The initially small group of outspoken critics of the regime (including, inter alia, Einstein and Arnold Zweig) who had fled abroad and been targeted by the Gestapo for denaturalization, grew steadily to encompass a wide variety of alleged "opponents, " especially Jews. In this process, a high degree of cooperation between the Gestapo, the Foreign Office, and the financial administration was achieved. Economic rather than political interests dictated this policy. By 1940 the police extended denaturalization to all Jewish emigrants who owned significant property in Germany. The Eleventh Decree legalized the automatic confiscation of property of German Jews deported to the East and marked the transition from denaturalization and expropriation of individual Jews to expropriation of all Jews.
DOI:
10.1093/hgs/16.2.217
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