Final Sale in Berlin : : The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945 / / Christoph Kreutzmüller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Kreutzmüller, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its obliteration. Rather than just examining the steps taken by the persecutors, it also tells the stories of Jewish strategies in countering the effects of persecution. In doing so, this book exposes a fascinating paradox where Berlin, serving as the administrative heart of the Third Reich, was also the site of a dense network for Jewish self-help and assertion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Foreword to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Context -- Chapter 1 Berlin -- Chapter 2 Economy -- Chapter 3 Jewish Commercial Activity -- Part II Attacking Jewish Commercial Activity -- Chapter 4 Violent Persecution -- Chapter 5 Bureaucratic Persecution -- Chapter 6 Voyeurs and Profiteers -- Chapter 7 The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity -- Part III Asserting Jewish Commercial Activity -- Chapter 8 Institutional Counter-Strategies -- Chapter 9 Individual Counter-Strategies -- Chapter 10 Emigration -- Chapter 11 Case Studies -- Part IV Deportation -- Chapter 12 The Deportation of Jewish Businesspeople -- Final Sale -- Bibliography -- Index (Company and Family Names)