Allianz and the German insurance business, 1933-1945 / Gerald D. Feldman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-547) and index.

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The Allianz concern and its leaders, 1918-1933. Building the concern . The Allianz concern in the 1930s : structure, organization, and personnel. the politics of the insurance business. Schmitt, Göring, and Hitler -- Allianz, Kurt Schmitt, and the Third Reich, 1933-1934. Disorder and delusion : an economics minister for the Third Reich. The Schmitt intermezzo : reorganizing for the Third Reich -- Adaptation and Aryanization. The extent and limits of Nazification at Allianz. Allianz, Its Jewish employees, and Aryanization -- Allianz and the Reich Group : Politics of the insurance business in the period of regime radicalization, 1936-1939 -- The "Night of Broken Glass" and the insurance industry. The pogrom as an insurance problem and the conference of November 12, 1938. Hilgard, the Reich Group, and the aftermath of the Air Ministry conference. The "Night of Broken Glass" and business ethics in the Third Reich -- Allianz, the insurance business, and the fate of Jewish life insurance policies, 1933-1945. Indirect confiscation of Jewish life insurance assets. Direct expropriation of Jewish life insurance assets -- Allianz, Munich Re, and the insurance business in "Greater Germany". Allianz in 1940. Allianz and "Greater Germany" : expansion into Austria and the Sudetenland. The nationalization conflict redivivus and the rewards and travails of collaboration -- Allianz and Munich Re in the Second World War. Expansionist efforts and business opportunities in war. Total war and doing business in the face of defeat -- Confronting the past : denazification and restitution. self-exculpation and image reconstruction. Allianz and the problems of restitution.

This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. This book joins a growing body of scholarship based on free access to the records of German corporations in the Nazi era.

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