The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank [Paperback]

Examines the role of Deutsche Bank during the Nazi dictatorship.This book examines the role of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, in the Nazi dictatorship, and asks how the bank changed and acommodated to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. How did the new Zeitgeist influene the bank? What opportunities for profit did it see in the National Socialist route out of the Great Depression? What role did anti-Semitism play in its busness relations and its dealing with employees? How was the bank connected to Auschwitz?This book examines the role of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, in the Nazi dictatorship, and asks how the bank changed and acommodated to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. How did the new Zeitgeist influene the bank? What opportunities for profit did it see in the National Socialist route out of the Great Depression? What role did anti-Semitism play in its busness relations and its dealing with employees? How was the bank connected to Auschwitz?Examining the role of the Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, in the Nazi dictatorship, Harold James asks how the bank accommodated itself to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. How did the new Zeitgeist influence the bank? What opportunities for profit did it see in the National Socialist route out of the Great Depression? What role did anti-Semitism play in the bank's business relations and its dealing with employees? How was the bank connected to Auschwitz?List of figures and table; Preface; 1. The setting; 2. The initial challenge: National Socialist ideology; 3. Anti-Semitism and the German banks; 4. Emil Georg von Stauss: the banker as politician; 5. Foreign expansion; 6. The expansion of state and party during the war; 7. The end of dictatorship; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Harold James, tl³Á