{"product_id":"profits-and-persecution-german-big-business-in-the-nazi-economy-and-the-holocaust-hardback-9780521772884","title":"Profits and Persecution; German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust (Hardback) 9780521772884","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eProfits and Persecution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGerman Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores how and why German big business became instrumental to the persecution of the European Jews during the Holocaust.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Hayes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521772884, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'[A] masterful historical synthesis and a poignant meditation on the failures of business leadership which remains distressingly pertinent in the present. Beyond its historical merits, it ought to be required reading in all business schools.' Sophus A. Reinert, Business History Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust?  What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on evidence concerning the roughly one hundred most significant German firms of the Nazi era, Peter Hayes explores how large German corporations dealt with Jews, their property, and their labor. This study unites business history and the history of the Holocaust to consider both the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders complicit in the actions of the Nazi Party. In doing so, it demonstrates how ordinary, familiar thought processes came to serve the ideological purposes of the Third Reich with lethal consequences.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Prologue, 1918–1933: 1. Path-dependence\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ambivalence\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Autarky and Armament, 1933–1939\/41: 3. Compliance\u003cbr\u003e 4. Monopsony\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dejewification\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Total War, 1939\/41–1945: 6. Mobilization\u003cbr\u003e 7. Exploitation\u003cbr\u003e 8. Annihilation\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Aftermath, 1945–2024: 9. Outcomes\u003cbr\u003e 10. Summary.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52173701218584,"sku":"9780521772884","price":20.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780521772884i.jpg?v=1781167492","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/profits-and-persecution-german-big-business-in-the-nazi-economy-and-the-holocaust-hardback-9780521772884","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}