Business and Industry in Nazi Germany [Paperback]

During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical research and public debate. This volume brings together a group of internationally renowned scholars who have been at the forefront of recent research. Their articles provide an up-to-date synthesis, which is as comprehensive as it is insightful, of current knowledge in this field. The result is a volume that offers students and interested readers a brief but focused introduction to the role of German businesses and industries in the crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. Not only does this book treat the subject in an accessible manner; it also emerges as particularly relevant in light of current controversies over the nature of business-state relations, corporate social responsibility, and globalization.

Francis R. Nicosiais the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He has written on German Zionism and German Middle East policy during the Weimar and Nazi periods, and is author ofThe Third Reich and the Palestine Question, and co-author ofThe Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1.Business and Industry in Nazi Germany in Historiographical Context
F. R. NicosiaandJ. Huener

Chapter 2.Financial Institutions in Nazi Germany
G. D. Feldman

Chapter 3.Banks and Business Politics in Nazi Germany
H. James

Chapter 4.The Chemistry of Business-State Relations in the Third Reich
P. Hayes

Chapter 5.The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slavery, and the Concentrations Camps
M. T. AllenChapter 6.Corporate Social Responsibility and the Issue of Compensation: The Case of Ford and Nazi Germany
S. Reich

Chapter 7.Writing the History of Business in the Third Reich: Past Achievements and Future Directions