Profits and Persecution

Auteur

Peter Hayes is Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He is the author of the best-selling Why? Explaining the Holocaust (2017), as well as thirteen other books and more than one hundred articles and chapters on the history of the Nazi era. Hayes served for twenty years on the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as its chair from 2014 to 2019.

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What role did German big business play in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust? Profits and Persecution explores the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders instruments of the Nazi regime and then, after the war, falsifiers of the historical record until prompted to change by new commercial calculations.

Contenu

Part I. Prologue, 1918-1933: 1. Path-dependence; 2. Ambivalence; Part II. Autarky and Armament, 1933-1939/41: 3. Compliance; 4. Monopsony; 5. Dejewification; Part III. Total War, 1939/41-1945: 6. Mobilization; 7. Exploitation; 8. Annihilation; Part IV. Aftermath, 1945-2024: 9. Outcomes; 10. Summary.