Robbing the Jews

Penetrating revelations of Nazi confiscation of Jewish property, and of robbery's intimate relationship to the Holocaust.

Autorentext
Martin Dean is an Applied Research Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, DC. He received a scholarship in History from Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1980 and was awarded his PhD also at Queens' in 1989. His publications include Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44 (2000); Austrian Policy during the French Revolutionary Wars, 1796-99 (1993); and numerous articles. He has also worked as a Staff Historian for the Australian Special Investigations Unit and as the Senior Historian for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London (1992-7). He has held a DAAD grant and was awarded the Pearl Resnick Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997. He has acted as an expert witness in Nazi war crimes cases in Australia and Germany.

Zusammenfassung
This book discloses the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property, demonstrating the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust. Dean traces the intensification of this spoliation and reveals instances when robbery acted as a catalyst for genocide, accelerating the progression from pogrom to mass murder.

Inhalt
Part I. Economic Persecution Inside the Third Reich, 1933-41: 1. The Nazis' initial confiscation measures; 2. Mounting obstacles to Jewish emigration, 1933-9; 3. The Anschluss and Kristallnacht: accelerating aryanization and confiscation in Austria and Germany, 1938-9; 4. Blocking Jewish accounts and preparations for mass confiscation, 1939-41; Part II. Jewish Property and the European Holocaust, 1939-45: 5. Destruction and plunder in the occupied east: Poland, the Soviet Union, and Serbia; 6. Settling accounts in the wake of the deportations; 7. 'Plunder by decree': the confiscation of Jewish property in German-occupied Western Europe; 8. Sovereign imitations: confiscations by states allied to Nazi Germany; 9. Receiving stolen property: neutral states and private companies; 10. Seizure of property and the social dynamics of the Holocaust.

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