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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Business and Industry in Nazi Germany in Historiographical Context
F. R. Nicosia and J. 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. Allen Chapter 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
V. R. Berghahn
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Jonathan Huener is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Vermont. He has written on aspects of memorial culture in postwar Germany and Poland, and is author of Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979.
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