Title: Robbing the Jews
First published: 2008
Description: "Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property; the book demonstrates the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust. The spoliation evolved in intensifying steps. The Anschluss and Kristallnacht in 1938 reveal a dynamic tension between pressure from below and state-directed measures. In Western Europe, the economic persecution of the Jews took the form of legal decrees and administrative measures. In Eastern Europe, authoritarian governments adopted the Nazi program that excluded Jews from the economy and seized their property, based on indigenous antisemitism and plans for ethnically homogenous nation-states. In the occupied East, property was collected at the killing sites - the most valuable objects were sent to Berlin, whereas items of lesser value supported the local administration and rewarded collaborators. At several key junctures, robbery acted as a catalyst for genocide, accelerating the progression from pogrom to mass murder."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Aryanization, Confiscations and contributions, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish property, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, confiscations and contributions, Jews, europe
Places: Europe
LC classification: D810.C8 .D43 2008