Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933–1945

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-06-08
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. Feldman takes the reader through varied cases of collaboration and conflict with the Nazi regime with fairness and a commitment to informed analysis. He touches on issues of damages in the Pogrom of 1938, insuring facilities used in forced labour camps, and the problems of de-Nazification and restitution. The broader issues examined in this study - cooperation with Nazi policies, the way in which profit, ideology, and opportunism played a role in corporate decision-making, and the question of how Jewish insurance assets were expropriated - are particularly relevant today given the ongoing international debate about restitution for Holocaust survivors. This book joins a growing body of scholarship based on free access to the records of German corporations in the Nazi era.

Table of Contents

1. The Allianz concern and its leaders, 1918-1933
2. Allianz, Kurt Schmitt, and the Third Reich, 1933-1934
3. Adaptation and aryanization
4. Allianz and the Reich group: politics of the insurance business in the period of regime radicalization, 1936-1939
5. The 'Night of Broken Glass' and the insurance industry
6. Allianz, the insurance business, and the fate of Jewish Life Insurance Policies, 1933-1945
7. Allianz, Munich Re, and the insurance business in 'greater Germany'
8. Allianz and Munich Re in the Second World War
9. Confronting the past: denazification and restitution
Bibliography
Index.

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