The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank [Hardcover]

Harold James (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521838746 | ISBN-13: 978-0521838740 | Publication Date: September 13, 2004

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?

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Harold James, the most knowledgeable expert of Deutsche Bank's history during the Third Reich, presents a thoroughly researched, highly knowledgeable and well written account on how the Deutsche Bank got involved in the politics of Nazi Germany...Ultimately James helps readers to judge whether the managers of the Deutsche Bank acted as accomplices or as unwitting agents."
- Christopher Kopper, Universität Bielefeld

"In this important study, Harold James expands and deepens his earlier work on the country's pre-eminent bank in the Third Reich. Backed by newly discovered sources, he does not present a pretty picture of senior Deutsche Bank executives who, progressively marginalized in their political influence, defensively accommodated themselves to the Nazi dictatorship because resistance seemed too risky or was deemed to be futile in the face of the regime's dogmatic dynamism...Highly recommended not only to historians of Nazism, but also to Business School students."
- Volker R. Berghahn, Department of History, Columbia University

"...James's book is a very valuable contribution to the (currently) ever-increasing literature on German banks in the Third Reich."
- H-German, Mark Spoerer, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart)

"thoroughly researched, closely annotated book..." - H.A. Turner, Yale University

"Prof. James' account is well substantiated and persuasive." - Peter Hayes, Northwestern University

Book Description

This book examines the role of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, in the Nazi dictatorship, and asks how the bank changed and acommodated to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. How did the new Zeitgeist influene 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 its busness relations and its dealing with employees? How was the bank connected to Auschwitz?

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521838746
• ISBN-13: 978-0521838740
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,669,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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