Networks of Nazi persecution: bureaucracy, business, and the organization of the Holocaust

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List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Holocaust as Division-of-Labor-Based Crime-Evidence and Analytical Challenges Gerald D. Feldman and Wolfgang Seibel PART I: RIVALRY AND COMPETITION Chapter 1. Introduction to Rivalry and Competition Christian Gerlach Chapter 2. The SS Security Service and the Gestapo in the National Socialist Persecution of the Jews 1933-1939 Wolfgang Dierker Chapter 3. Aryanization and the Role of the German Banks, 1933-1938 Dieter Ziegler Chapter 4. The Looting of Jewish Property and Franco-German Rivalry, 1940-1944 Philippe Verheyde Chapter 5. Seizure of Jewish Property and Inter-Agency Rivalry in the Reich and in the Occupied Soviet Territories Martin C. Dean Chapter 6. The Polycratic Nature of Art Looting: The Dynamic Balance of the Third Reich Jonathan Petropoulos Chapter 7. The Holocaust and Corruption Frank Bajohr Part II: SMOOTH COOPERATION Chapter 8. Introduction to Smooth Gerhard Hirschfeld and Wolfgang Seibel Chapter 9. The Looting of Jewish Property and the German Financial Administration Alfons Kenkmann Chapter 10. Organized Looting: The Nazi Seizure of Jewish Property in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Gerard Aalders Chapter 11. Perpetrator Networks and the Holocaust. The Spoliation of Jewish Property in France, 1940-1944 Marc Olivier Baruch Chapter 12. Ethnic Resettlement and Inter-Agency Cooperation in the Occupied Eastern Territories Isabel Heinemann Chapter 13. Der reibungslose Holocaust? The German Military and Civilian Implementation of the Final Solution in Ukraine, 1941-1944 Wendy Lower PART III: DECENTRAL INITIATIVE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION Chapter 14. A Bureaucratic Holocaust: Toward a New Consensus Micheal Thad Allen Chapter 15. Local Initiatives, Central Coordination: German Municipal Administration and the Holocaust Wolf Gruner Chapter 16. The Reichskristallnacht and the Insurance Industry: The Politics of Damage Control Gerald D. Feldman PART IV: STRUCTURE, AGENCY, AND THE LOGIC OF RADICALIZATION Chapter 17. More than Just a Metaphor: the Network Concept and Its Potential in Holocaust Research Joerg Raab Chapter 18. Restraining or Radicalizing? Division of Labor and Persecution Effectiveness Wolfgang Seibel Notes on Contributors Index