Aryanization event
also: Nazification, compulsory Aryanization, expropriation of Jewish property, legalized looting of Jewish property, liquidation, looting, voluntary Aryanization
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West Germanycountry · 15Nazi Partyorganization · 5Ford Motor Companyorganization · 5Deutsche Bankorganization · 4Simmons Grouporganization · 4Stower Work AGorganization · 3Adolf Hitlerperson · 3Hjalmar Schachtperson · 2Flick Grouporganization · 2Dresdner Bankorganization · 2William Draperperson · 1German Credit and Investment Corporation of New Jerseyorganization · 1Erhard Schmidtperson · 1Nuremberg Race Lawsevent · 1David Lloydperson · 1Tying Davey upevent · 1Beating Daveyevent · 1Leavingevent · 1Anne Blockperson · 1Gestapointelligence service · 1Richard Freudenbergperson · 1Conrad Tacking Companyorganization · 1Robert Bosch concernorganization · 1Link Hoffman workorganization · 1
Claims (9)
Nazi Party funded
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“that is going to be loyal to the government. Nazi rule ensured the legitimacy of their new acquisitions. Most of these ex-appropriations continue to be recognized by German courts to this day. The earliest Aaronization can be traced to a na…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 8:03
Dresdner Bank financed_via
Aryanization book_quoted
“that he had to give his lawyer unlimited power of attorney for the disposal of all of his possessions. He was informed that he would not be set free if he didn't sign the power of attorney. The attorney then sold the brewery to Dresner Bank…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 11:06
Simmons Group financed_via
Aryanization book_quoted
“The bank financed the deal on behalf of Simmons Holding Company. Simon, whatever it is, group dismissed the Aaron family directors, installed their own men, and changed the company name to Helia Watt AG. Once under Simmons' control, Helia W…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 16:27
Deutsche Bank financed_via
Aryanization book_quoted
“And the legalized looting of Jewish property would open them up to charges of being poor managers of depositors' funds. Dresner's managers complained in 1935 to senior management that the rival Deutsche Bank had a $5 million mark aryanizati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 22:15
Hjalmar Schacht funded
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“but it was the private businesses that were doing this. By late 1935, economic minister Heimar Slatt, who was basically referred to as Hitler's banker, sensed the profits that the government could derive by imposing itself as a middleman in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 24:08
Hermann Goring funded
Aryanization book_quoted
“of the Nazi Germany's giant industrial holding company, VIAG. Hermann Göring, the senior official in charge of war mobilization, was later to claim that Germany's preparation for war had been bankrolled from two sources, Aryanization of Jew…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 29:57
Deutsche Bank financed_via
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“Higman stepped forward with a blistering expose of Abbe's institutional role during the Third Reich. For those more critical observers, Hermann Abbe was not only the director at Germany's most powerful war industries, he was also the financ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 36:22
Creditanstalt financed_via
Aryanization book_quoted
“Abs helped Aryanize scores of properties in Austria, depriving hundreds of Jewish families their livelihood and setting their stage for their deportation to concentration camps. Credenstahl eventually became the single most active bank in t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 45:59
Deutsche Bank financed_via
Aryanization book_quoted
“at 64% of their value. The Toppler family, tiller brand textile and uniform company, at 25% of its value. The Arianization of Brunner factory was jointly handled by Credenstahl and Deutsche Bank Berlin office. Captured records indicate. Mea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 49:24
Mentions (26)
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coming a little bit closer into play apparently they left they tied Davey up into a chair they beat him and then they looted and left now if it was just a case and these are just the critical thinking that you need to use if they were just …
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So there was some horrific things going on in both theaters. But it's weird how you only ever hear about the European theater. Private Enterprise first fed on the German government's program to erinize Jewish property, that is to force the …
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This was called voluntary Aryanization because the Jewish people were allowed to sell it. But of course, because of so many sales at the time, they were getting pennies on the dollar for what their businesses were worth. So it wasn't really…
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Because a lot of the people used the money generated from the sale of their business to get out of Dodge. Later came the compulsory version of it, which began in November 1938. The government seized Jewish property without compensation and …
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that is going to be loyal to the government. Nazi rule ensured the legitimacy of their new acquisitions. Most of these ex-appropriations continue to be recognized by German courts to this day. The earliest Aaronization can be traced to a na…
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came to power. The local leaders persecuted Jewish people during this boycott as a show of power, according to Anne Block, a historian. For Aryan businessmen, the boycott was a convenient means of getting rid of their competition. It also p…
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The Englehart Brew as the drink of choice at party gatherings. Roche was convicted at Nuremberg of crimes against humanity in connection with the organized plunder of the entire country. By then, the brewery extortion had almost been forgot…
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In June 1936, the mainstream business newspaper published a glowing article praising German economic progress since the Nazis had come to power. And basically, it was all due to this type of business practice. The entry for 1933 recorded si…
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In another contract, German shoe manufacturer, Richard Freudenberg, purchased his major competitor, a Jewish-owned Conrad Tacking Company. This was the first of a number of such aryanization for Freudenberg. The U.S. government was later to…
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The major paper listed 21 very large transfers and consolidations in 1934 alone. Most were forced buyouts by multi-million dollar Jewish firms of multi-million dollar Jewish firms by the German competitors. In 1935, 32 such large contracts …
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by the Simmons Group, one by the Robert Bosch concern, and one by the Link Hoffman work, and another by Flick. The pace accelerated in 1936 with 22 major acquisitions in the first five months alone, including two more by Flick and one by th…
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Ford's attempted aryanization of Jewish property was symptomatic of the role the U.S. business played in Germany throughout the first decade of the Hitler's rule. At Ford's headquarters in the U.S., executives indicated that they wished to …
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for use as auto body production plant building Ford's for sale throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Although the company declined to disclose the terms of the deal, it did acknowledge that Ford's German subsidiary had become one of the U.…
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Electric AG of Berlin, a manufacturer of electric meters and radios. According to a later U.S. study, Aaron work owner Manfred Aaron had until 1935 been determined to hold on to his firm and wait out the Nazis. But after the Gestapo arreste…
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The bank financed the deal on behalf of Simmons Holding Company. Simon, whatever it is, group dismissed the Aaron family directors, installed their own men, and changed the company name to Helia Watt AG. Once under Simmons' control, Helia W…
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for concentration camp labor in Germany. Also, the big newspaper over there reported that Ford's purchase indicated a realization of the world's view of race as a basis of economy. Ford's German director, Heinrich Albert, wrote to headquart…
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In a revealing development, however, Ford abandoned the store work acquisition when the company discovered it would cost too much to introduce new technology and mass production. Thus, Ford was willing to participate in the Nazi Aryanizatio…
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Two areas seemed especially promising, Aryanization and the semi-clandestine German rearmament program. New German conglomerates built mainly on the seizure of Jewish-owned companies sold bonds on the international market to raise capital t…
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though not called that by name. They sold them in New York, London, Zurich, and other financial centers. Dylan Reed, Vice President William Draper, emerged as one of the most prosperous traders of these bonds. As director of the German Cred…
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It's almost as if they knew there was going to be another war. U.S. investment in Great Britain, while larger than that in Germany, barely held steady over that entire decade at 2%. So all of the money was going into Germany. The pace of ar…
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And the legalized looting of Jewish property would open them up to charges of being poor managers of depositors' funds. Dresner's managers complained in 1935 to senior management that the rival Deutsche Bank had a $5 million mark aryanizati…
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of large investments. This gave Deutsche Bank a leg up. So they're competing to fund the confiscation of Jewish businesses. At least at Deutsche Bank, letters, quote, letters regarding Aryanization were sent by the CEO of Deutsche Bank to t…
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The Bank Berlin senior manager, Erhard Schmidt, told interrogators after the war, they stated, first of all, that Aryanization was now quite common and then pointed out that Dresdner Bank was deriving appreciable profits from such transacti…
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would have to take advantage of all opportunities along those lines, unquote. Aeronization was seen as a legitimate business opportunity by all. The Nazis, well, not the Jewish people, but everybody else, the Nazis played only a limited rol…
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but it was the private businesses that were doing this. By late 1935, economic minister Heimar Slatt, who was basically referred to as Hitler's banker, sensed the profits that the government could derive by imposing itself as a middleman in…
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which would also collect a variety of taxes and transfer charges on these transactions. Schlott's comments and actions during the month leading up to the notorious anti-Semitic Nuremberg race laws in 1935 tacitly confirmed that the German p…