The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank

by Harold James

Examining the role of the Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, in the Nazi dictatorship, Harold James asks how the bank accommodated itself to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. How did the new Zeitgeist influence the bank? What opportunities for profit did it see in the National Socialist route out of the Great Depression? What role did anti-Semitism play in the bank's business relations and its dealing with employees? How was the bank connected to Auschwitz?

298 pages, Hardcover

First published September 13, 2004

About the author

Harold James is Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another rabid anti-semite who knows how to sail the politically correct waters of the Academia. Hence, "apart jewish possesion", the private ownership was left untouched. Right. So if the commissar considered your catholic Jewish grandfather a Christian, you had private ownership. And otherwise you would be dead, so in another world James would consider that even Jews had their private ownership respected. Of course, for his sort, Conscription is a citizen duty and a confirmation of state respecting private ownership. And making the likes of James to work for their wage, or pay rent for the office is a terrible state intervention in Academia.