Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9781107001657
Subjects: Banks and banking, corrupt practices; Banks and banking, europe; Finance, europe; World war, 1939-1945, austria; World war, 1939-1945, finance; Austria, history
Description: ""Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism focuses on the activities of two major financial institutions, the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the Länderbank Wien. It details the ways the two banks served the Nazi regime and how they used the opportunities presented by Nazi rule to expand their business activities. Particular attention is given to the role that the Creditanstalt and Länderbank played in the “Aryanization” of Jewish-owned businesses. The book also examines the two banks' relations with their industrial clients and considers the question of whether bank officials had any knowledge of their client firms' use of concentration camp prisoners and other forced laborers during World War II.""--Publisher's description.