| Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
| Description |
viii, 431 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-416) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I Political Opportunists in Action -- 1 The Dream of a People's Empire -- 2 The Accommodating Dictatorship -- Part II Subjugation and Exploitation -- 3 With Unwavering Efficiency -- 4 Profits for the People -- 5 The Mainstay: Western Europe -- 6 Room for Expansion: Eastern Europe -- Part III The Dispossession of the Jews -- 7 Larceny as a State Principle -- 8 Laundering Money for the Wehrmacht -- 9 Subsidies to and from Germany's Allies -- 10 The Trail of Gold -- Part IV Crimes for the Benefit of the People -- 11 The Fruits of Evil -- 12 Speculative Politics -- 13 Nazi Socialism -- A Note on Calculations -- Currency Exchange Rates. |
| Summary |
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 the German war machine. Time and again, warnings of an imminent financial collapse spurred the Third Reich to ever more desperate and brazen acts of thievery and destruction. A gripping work of scrupulous erudition and great historical importance, Hitleral's Beneficiaries explains the inexplicable, making a radically new contribution to our understanding of Nazi aggression, the Holocaust and the complicity of a people. From the book jacket. |
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Includes information on anti-Semitism, atonement payments, Banque de France Bank of Greece, Belgium, consumer goods, currency, debt and credit, Eastern Europe (Front), forced labor, France, Joseph Goebbels, gold, Hermann Goring, government bonds, Greece, Adolf Hitler, Holland (Netherlands), responsibility for Holocaust, Hungary, inflation, Italy, Jewish assets, Jews, deportation of Jews, National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party), occupation costs, Poland, Reich Credit Banks (Rreichkreditkasse), Reichsbank, Romania, Schwerin von Krosigk (Count Lutz), social welfare system, Soldiers, Soviet Union, taxes and tax policy, Vichy France, Wehrmacht, working classes, World War I, World War II, etc. |
| Subject |
Germany -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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National socialism -- Philosophy.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- Switzerland.
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Jewish property -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Economic aspects.
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| ISBN |
0805079262 |
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9780805079265 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2464945 |
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NZ1 10914329 |
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