Networks of Nazi Persecution : : Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust / / ed. by Gerald D. Feldman, Wolfgang Seibel.

• MitwirkendeR: Aalders, Gerard,; Allen, Michael Thad,; Bajohr, Frank,; Baruch, Marc Olivier,; Dean, Martin C.,; Dierker, Wolfgang,; Feldman, Gerald D.,; Gerlach, Christian,; Gruner, Wolf,; Heinemann, Isabel,; Hirschfeld, Gerhard,; Kenkmann, Alfons,; Lower, Wendy,; Petropoulos, Jonathan,; Raab, Jörg,; Seibel, Wolfgang,; Verheyde, Philippe,; Ziegler, Dieter,
• HerausgeberIn: Feldman, Gerald D.,; Seibel, Wolfgang,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on human and organizational resources they could not always control by hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution of the Jews was based, to a large extent, on a web of inter-organizational relations encompassing a broad variety of non-hierarchical cooperation as well as rivalry and competition. Based on newly accessible government and corporate archives, this volume combines fresh evidence with an interpretation of the governance of persecution, presented by prominent historians and social scientists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: THE HOLOCAUST AS DIVISION-OF-LABOR-BASED CRIME— EVIDENCE AND ANALYTICAL CHALLENGES -- PART I RIVALRY AND COMPETITION -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: RIVALRY AND COMPETITION -- CHAPTER 2 THE SS SECURITY SERVICE AND THE GESTAPO IN THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, 1933–1939 -- CHAPTER 3 “ARYANIZATION” AND THE ROLE OF THE GERMAN GREAT BANKS, 1933–1938 -- CHAPTER 4 THE LOOTING OF JEWISH PROPERTY AND FRANCO-GERMAN RIVALRY, 1940–1944 -- CHAPTER 5 SEIZURE OF JEWISH PROPERTY AND INTER-AGENCY RIVALRY IN THE REICH AND IN THE OCCUPIED SOVIET TERRITORIES -- CHAPTER 6 THE POLYCRATIC NATURE OF ART LOOTING: THE DYNAMIC BALANCE OF THE THIRD REICH -- CHAPTER 7 THE HOLOCAUST AND CORRUPTION -- PART II “SMOOTH COOPERATION” -- CHAPTER 8 INTRODUCTION: COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION -- CHAPTER 9 THE LOOTING OF JEWISH PROPERTY AND THE GERMAN FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION -- CHAPTER 10 ORGANIZED LOOTING: THE NAZI SEIZURE OF JEWISH PROPERTY IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1940–1945 -- CHAPTER 11 PERPETRATOR NETWORKS AND THE HOLOCAUST: THE SPOLIATION OF JEWISH PROPERTY IN FRANCE, 1940–1944 -- CHAPTER 12 “ETHNIC RESETTLEMENT” AND INTER-AGENCY COOPERATION IN THE OCCUPIED EASTERN TERRITORIES -- CHAPTER 13 THE “REIBUNGSLOSE” HOLOCAUST? THE GERMAN MILITARY AND CIVILIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE “FINAL SOLUTION” IN UKRAINE, 1941–1944 -- PART III DECENTRAL INITIATIVE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION -- CHAPTER 14 INTRODUCTION: A BUREAUCRATIC HOLOCAUST – TOWARD A NEW CONSENSUS -- CHAPTER 15 LOCAL INITIATIVES, CENTRAL COORDINATION: GERMAN MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION AND THE HOLOCAUST -- CHAPTER 16 THE REICHSKRISTALLNACHT AND THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY: THE POLITICS OF DAMAGE CONTROL -- PART IV “STRUCTURE,” “AGENCY,” AND THE LOGIC OF RADICALIZATION -- CHAPTER 17 MORE THAN JUST A METAPHOR: THE NETWORK CONCEPT AND ITS POTENTIAL IN HOLOCAUST RESEARCH -- CHAPTER 18 RESTRAINING OR RADICALIZING? DIVISION OF LABOR AND PERSECUTION EFFECTIVENESS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX