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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807093903321

Autore

Kreutzmüller Christoph

Titolo

Final Sale in Berlin : the destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945 / / Christoph Kreutzmüller ; translated by Jane Paulick and Jefferson Chase

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-813-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Disciplina

338.7089/924043155

Soggetti

Anti-Jewish boycotts - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century

Antisemitism - Germany - Berlin

Jews - Persecutions - Germany - Berlin

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Context; Chapter 1 - Berlin; Chapter 2 - Economy; Chapter 3 - Jewish Commercial Activity; Part II - Attacking Jewish Commercial Activity; Chapter 4 - Violent Persecution; Chapter 5 - Bureaucratic Persecution; Chapter 6 - Voyeurs and Profiteers; Chapter 7 - The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity; Part III - Asserting Jewish Commercial Activity; Chapter 8 - Institutional Counter-Strategies; Chapter 9 - Individual Counter-Strategies; Chapter 10 - Emigration; Chapter 11 - Case Studies; Part IV - Deportation

Chapter 12 - The Deportation of Jewish BusinesspeopleFinal Sale; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its obliteration. Rather than just examining the steps taken by the persecutors, it also tells the stories of Jewish strategies in countering the effects of persecution. In doing so, this book exposes a



fascinating paradox where Berlin, serving as the administrative heart of the Third Reich, was also the site of a dense network for Jewish self-help and assertion.