Lexington Books
Pages: 310
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-0682-2 • Hardback • October 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-1-7936-0683-9 • eBook • October 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
William M. Katin, PhD, is lecturer at the California State University, San Bernardino.
Chapter One: How Cheap Purchases of German-Jewish Firms Occurred
Chapter Two: History of Research on Cheap Purchases of Jewish Firms
Chapter Three: New Approach to Comprehend Aryanizers
Chapter Four: Background to Aryanization of the Hermann Tietz Chain
Chapter Five: Aryanization of Hermann Tietz
Chapter Six: Early Aryanizations Confirming the Hermann Tietz Paradigm
Chapter Seven: Conclusion
William M. Katin’s Hostile Takeovers offers a crucial addition to our understanding of the processes by which the ‘Aryanization’ of large Jewish businesses took place during Hitler’s Third Reich. Whereas scholars have mainly focused on the 1936–1938 period as the interval during which such expropriations—directed from above by the party-state—had occurred, Katin instead locates the period during the early years of the regime, 1933–1935. He demonstrates that these were affected privately by nonpolitical actors, who covertly colluded with some of the country’s largest banks, as they exploited the rising tide of anti-Semitism for purely personal gain. This study is an important work of revisionism that seriously alters the dimensions of a considerable historiography on a compelling and fraught historical issue.
— Albion M. Urdank, University of California, Los Angeles