Expulsion – Plunder – Flight: Businessmen and Emigration from Nazi Germany

Crowd in front of the Palestine & Orient Lloyd travel office, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Jan. 1939

Statement requesting Chemiewerk products be taken off of official boycott lists because control of the company had been removed from “Jewish hands”

Statement requesting Chemiewerk products be taken off of official boycott lists because control of the company had been removed from…

Arayanization of Arthur Abelmann's Chemiewerk

Document outlining the terms on which Chemiewerk (Chemisch-Pharmazeutischen A.G.), owned by Jewish businessman Arthur Abelmann, was “Aryanized” by the Nazi…

Distribution of German-Jewish Emigres, 1933-1941 by Year

Distribution of German-Jewish Emigres, 1933-1941 by Year (Total/Business Elite/Entrepreneurs) (in %) Author’s calculations based on Herbert A. Strauss, “Jewish Emigration…