Arayanization of Arthur Abelmann's ChemiewerkDocument outlining the terms on which Chemiewerk (Chemisch-Pharmazeutischen A.G.), owned by Jewish businessman Arthur Abelmann, was “Aryanized” by the Nazi…
Aryanisation in Hamburg: The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of Their Property in Nazi GermanyCreated By: Bajohr, Frank Publisher: New York: Berghahn Books, 2002
Bernstein, ArnoldArnold Bernstein was a successful shipping magnate in Hamburg before immigrating to the United States under pressure from the Nazi Regime. Despite losing his company the Arnold Bernstein Schiffahrtsgesellschaft and most of his assets, Bernstein re-established himself in the United States, founding a new shipping company, Arnold Bernstein Steamship Corporation.
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi GermanyCreated By: Kaplan, Marion A Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
Boyle, GertrudeIn 1970, when Gert Boyle became the president of Columbia Sportswear, the company was a small, struggling organization with low profit margins. Five years later, Columbia went international and was expanding at an impressive rate.
Bronner, EmanuelEmanuel Bronner was a pioneer of natural cosmetics. Coming from a traditional German soap maker family, he founded Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps in 1948. While the business remained small in terms of turnover and profits, its liquid peppermint soap was one of the first all-natural products available on the post-World War II American market.
Business of Plunder: The Nazi “Aryanization” of Private Banks and the Struggle for RestitutionCreated By: Köhler, Ingo Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014
Certificate of employment for Gottlob LöckleCertificate of employment for Gottlob Löckle, a long-time employee at Madaform Seifenfabrik Heilbronn, on the occasion of the firm’s “passing…
Chemiewerk, Bad Homburg, GermanyOverhead photograph of Chemiewerk, Bad Homburg, Germany. Chemiewerk, owned by Jewish businessman Arthur Abelmann, was “Aryanized” in 1933.
Destroyed store windows of a Jewish-owned shoe store in Magdeburg on the day after Reichskristallnacht, November 9, 1938Destroyed store windows of a Jewish-owned shoe store in Magdeburg on the day after Reichskristallnacht, November 9, 1938.
Destroyed store windows of Herrmanns & Froitzheim in Magdeburg on the day after Reichskristallnacht, November 9, 1938Destroyed store windows of Herrmanns & Froitzheim, a shop with Jewish owners, in Magdeburg on the day after Reichskristallnacht, November…
Destruction of the European JewsCreated By: Hilberg, Raul Publisher: 3rd ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003
Distribution of German-Jewish Emigres, 1933-1941 by YearDistribution of German-Jewish Emigres, 1933-1941 by Year (Total/Business Elite/Entrepreneurs) (in %) Author’s calculations based on Herbert A. Strauss, “Jewish Emigration…
Expulsion – Plunder – Flight: Businessmen and Emigration from Nazi GermanyA defining feature of political and social developments under National Socialist rule between 1933 and 1945 was the forced emigration of tens of thousands of Germans. After being deprived of their rights and dispossessed, they tried to escape persecution and annihilation by fleeing from the Third Reich. While the origins and circumstances of emigration from the Reich after 1933 are among the most intensively researched questions in German history, the fate of businessmen in the context of this emigration has received relatively little attention.
Finding ThalhimersCreated By: Smartt, Elizabeth Thalhimer Publisher: Manakin-Sabot, VA: Dementi Milestone Publishing, 2010
German-Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Post-World War II EraSample teaching plan for a multi-theme unit in an upper-level undergraduate course in American history, German history, Jewish history, ethnic studies, the history of migration, or immigrant entrepreneurship
Goering, Hermann and his lawyer Otto Stahmer discussing proceedings, March 26, 1946Hermann Goering and his lawyer Otto Stahmer discussing proceedings, March 26, 1946.
Guggenheim, FelixFelix Guggenheim emigrated to the United States in 1940. An influential publisher in Germany, Guggenheim was able to utilize his former contacts to establish a successful business as a literary agent and legal advisor for clients in the U.S. and in Germany after the end of World War II.
Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration 1933–1945Created By: Krohn, Claus-Dieter, et al., eds Publisher: Darmstadt: Primus-Verlag, 1998
Hitler’s Bitterest Foe: Samuel Untermyer and the Boycott of Nazi Germany, 1933-38,Created By: Hawkins, Richard A Source/Publisher: American Jewish History 93.1 (2007): 21-50