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Title:

ROBBING THE JEWS

By:

Martin Dean

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521888255

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9780521888257

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2008

Pages:

448

Description:

Penetrating revelations of Nazi confiscation of Jewish property, and of robbery's intimate relationship to the Holocaust.

Synopsis:

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.

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5 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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