Abstract
The destruction of the economic existence of the Jews and the step-by-step expropriation of their assets stand as one of the largest transfers of wealth in recent European history, comparable in scope to the gradual elimination of private property in communist eastern Europe after 1945. None the less, over many years, expropriation and expulsion sparked little interest among historians; even though inextricably intertwined with the mass murder, it remained eclipsed by its thematic dominance. Raul Hilberg, the Nestor of Holocaust research, explicitly stressed the nexus between economic expropriation and destruction. In his monumental work The Destruction of the European Jews, he conceived definition, expropriation, concentration and annihilation as integral components of a complex ‘destruction process’.1 KeywordsMass MurderSecurity PoliceGerman OccupationGerman HistorianEconomic ExclusionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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