Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust

Published by Berghahn Books 2004

Networks of Nazi Persecution

Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust

Edited by: Gerald D. Feldman and Wolfgang Seibel

Volume 7 in the series War and Genocide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857457073

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The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on human and organizational resources they could not always control by hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution of the Jews was based, to a large extent, on a web of inter-organizational relations encompassing a broad variety of non-hierarchical cooperation as well as rivalry and competition. Based on newly accessible government and corporate archives, this volume combines fresh evidence with an interpretation of the governance of persecution, presented by prominent historians and social scientists.

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Gerald D. Feldman (1937-2007) was Professor of History and Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His special fields of interest were 20th-century German history, and he had a special interest in business history, most recently authoring a biography of Hugo Stinnes, participating in the history of the Deutsche Bank, and writing a history of the Allianz Insurance Company in the Nazi period.

Wolfgang Seibel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Previous appointments include guest professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna (1992), and the University of California at Berkeley (1994). He was also a temporary member of the School of Social Science (1989/90) and of the School of Historical Studies (2003) of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Currently (2004/2005) he is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research is mainly devoted to issues of politics, public bureaucracy and non-governmental organizations.

Gerald D. Feldman (1937-2007) was Professor of History and Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His special fields of interest were 20th-century German history, and he had a special interest in business history, most recently authoring a biography of Hugo Stinnes, participating in the history of the Deutsche Bank, and writing a history of the Allianz Insurance Company in the Nazi period.

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"The Berghahn series Studies on War and Genocide, in which this collection appears, has immeasurably enriched the English language scholarship available to scholars and students of genocide and, in particular, the Holocaust. This particular collection is no exception, and is another excellent, if contentious, addition to and summary of contemporary Holocaust scholarship.This is then a valuable collection that confirms some of the accepted ideas of Holocaust historiography, while also revising others. It will give access for the first time to many students and scholars to some perspectives not previously available in the English language. The diversity of those perspectives is testament to the vigour of contemporary Holocaust scholarship."—Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
LIST OF FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION: THE HOLOCAUST AS DIVISION-OF-LABOR-BASED CRIME— EVIDENCE AND ANALYTICAL CHALLENGES Gerald D. Feldman and Wolfgang Seibel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I RIVALRY AND COMPETITION
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: RIVALRY AND COMPETITION Christian Gerlach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
CHAPTER 2 THE SS SECURITY SERVICE AND THE GESTAPO IN THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, 1933–1939 Wolfgang Dierker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
CHAPTER 3 “ARYANIZATION” AND THE ROLE OF THE GERMAN GREAT BANKS, 1933–1938 Dieter Ziegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
CHAPTER 4 THE LOOTING OF JEWISH PROPERTY AND FRANCO-GERMAN RIVALRY, 1940–1944 Philippe Verheyde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
CHAPTER 5 SEIZURE OF JEWISH PROPERTY AND INTER-AGENCY RIVALRY IN THE REICH AND IN THE OCCUPIED SOVIET TERRITORIES Martin C. Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
CHAPTER 6 THE POLYCRATIC NATURE OF ART LOOTING: THE DYNAMIC BALANCE OF THE THIRD REICH Jonathan Petropoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
CHAPTER 7 THE HOLOCAUST AND CORRUPTION Frank Bajohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
PART II “SMOOTH COOPERATION”
CHAPTER 8 INTRODUCTION: COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION Gerhard Hirschfeld, Wolfgang Seibel and Wolfgang Seibel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
CHAPTER 9 THE LOOTING OF JEWISH PROPERTY AND THE GERMAN FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION Alfons Kenkmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
CHAPTER 10 ORGANIZED LOOTING: THE NAZI SEIZURE OF JEWISH PROPERTY IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1940–1945 Gerard Aalders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
CHAPTER 11 PERPETRATOR NETWORKS AND THE HOLOCAUST: THE SPOLIATION OF JEWISH PROPERTY IN FRANCE, 1940–1944 Marc Olivier Baruch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
CHAPTER 12 “ETHNIC RESETTLEMENT” AND INTER-AGENCY COOPERATION IN THE OCCUPIED EASTERN TERRITORIES Isabel Heinemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
CHAPTER 13 THE “REIBUNGSLOSE” HOLOCAUST? THE GERMAN MILITARY AND CIVILIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE “FINAL SOLUTION” IN UKRAINE, 1941–1944 Wendy Lower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
PART III DECENTRAL INITIATIVE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION
CHAPTER 14 INTRODUCTION: A BUREAUCRATIC HOLOCAUST – TOWARD A NEW CONSENSUS Michael Thad Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
CHAPTER 15 LOCAL INITIATIVES, CENTRAL COORDINATION: GERMAN MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION AND THE HOLOCAUST Wolf Gruner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
CHAPTER 16 THE REICHSKRISTALLNACHT AND THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY: THE POLITICS OF DAMAGE CONTROL Gerald D. Feldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
PART IV “STRUCTURE,” “AGENCY,” AND THE LOGIC OF RADICALIZATION
CHAPTER 17 MORE THAN JUST A METAPHOR: THE NETWORK CONCEPT AND ITS POTENTIAL IN HOLOCAUST RESEARCH Jörg Raab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
CHAPTER 18 RESTRAINING OR RADICALIZING? DIVISION OF LABOR AND PERSECUTION EFFECTIVENESS Wolfgang Seibel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 392
Keywords: Genocide History

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Published: December 1, 2004
ISBN: 9780857457073