German Big Business and the Holocaust
b'Among the most striking exhibits at the Auschwitz museum are undoubtedly the mountains of loot stolen from Jews murdered upon arrival. Shoes, suitcases, spectacles, and more fill entire rooms in the former barracks of the main camp. Surviving the Shoah when their owners did not, they constitute a potent proof of the Nazis\\u2019 abiding concern with material gain. In this talk, author and historian Peter Hayes traces the ways by which the German corporate world became deeply implicated in\\u2014and in many respects indispensable to\\u2014the Nazi regime\\u2019s persecution, exploitation, and murder of Europe\\u2019s Jews. He argues that these developments stemmed inexorably from decisions made and actions taken by the nation\\u2019s leading corporate executives in 1933, at the very outset of Nazi rule.\\n\\nHayes is author or editor of 13 books, including the best-selling \\u201cDas Amt und die Vergangenheit\\u201d and \\u201cWhy? Explaining the Holocaust,\\u201d which has been translated into several foreign languages including German, Slovak, Spanish, and Chinese. He is currently completing (with Stephan Lindner of Munich) \\u201cProfits and Persecution: German Big Business, the Nazi Economy, and the Holocaust.\\u201d Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 38423]'