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2 - Ambivalence

from Part I - Prologue, 1918–1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

Peter Hayes
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
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The chapter argues that prior to Hitler’s accession, Germany’s corporate elite was fatefully ambivalent toward Jews: sympathetic to those who were part of it, suspicious of those who were critical of it or newly arrived in the country. This ambivalence meant that corporate executives were generally neither antisemites nor anti-antisemites or that they were simultaneously both.

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Profits and Persecution
German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
, pp. 15 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Ambivalence
  • Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
  • Book: Profits and Persecution
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139049689.004
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  • Ambivalence
  • Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
  • Book: Profits and Persecution
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139049689.004
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  • Ambivalence
  • Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
  • Book: Profits and Persecution
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139049689.004
Available formats
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