A social history focusing on the individual stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors in France as they tried to rebuild their lives after the war: examining the looting of private apartments in Paris as part of the German occupiers' plunder of France, and analysing Jewish attempts …
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"Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Par…
"This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussio…
"This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussio…
"This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussio…
"This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussio…
The catalog of an exhibition held at the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, 29 October 1998 through 10 January 1999. Discusses the expropriation and Aryanization of Jewish property in Nazi Germany. States that before deportation the competent authorities informed every Jew that his belongi…
In this groundbreaking book, distinguished historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Adolf Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans for his program of mass murder and military conquest? The answer Aly provides is as shocking as it is …
Aly depicts a Nazi leadership addicted to the spoils of invasion, annexation and dispossession. He shows that the pace and timing of Nazi conquests-from the Anschluss of Austria to the annexation of the Czech Sudetenland-were dictated by the rapidly escalating financial needs of…
Argues that through a campaign of organized theft, the proceeds of which were channeled into generous social programs at home, Hitler and the Nazis "bought" the allegiance of ordinary Germans.