Final Sale in Berlin

Christoph Kreutzmüller is a curator of the new permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. He has written extensively in the field of the Holocaust, economic and photographic history. His publications include National Economies: Volks-Wirtschaft, Racism and Economy in Europe between the Wars (2015, co-editor Michael Wildt and Moshe Zimmermann) and Fixiert: Fotografische Quellen zur Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden in Europa (2016, with Julia Werner), forthcoming is Dispossession, Plundering German Jewry 1933-1953 (2017, co-editor with Jonathan Zatlin). Together with Hans-Christian Jasch he has just edited The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference (Berghahn, 2017).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: CONTEXTChapter 1. BerlinChapter 2. EconomyChapter 3. Jewish Commercial ActivityPART II: ATTACKING JEWISH COMMERCIAL ACTIVITYChapter 4. Violent PersecutionChapter 5. Bureaucratic PersecutionChapter 6. Voyeurs and ProfiteersChapter 7. The Destruction of Jewish Commercial ActivityPART III: ASSERTING JEWISH COMMERCIAL ACTIVITYChapter 8. Institutional Counter-StrategiesChapter 9. Individual Counter-StrategiesChapter 10. EmigrationChapter 11. Case StudiesPART IVChapter 12. The Deportation of Jewish BusinesspeopleSummary    BibliographyIndex

“Kreutzmüller's well written study deals with resistance offered by Berlin's Jews in the face of Hitler's legal machinery to destroy their economic selfreliance. The exhaustive research... abundant examples and case studies complement the data, making the book useful for both research and teaching.” • Choice“[Kreutzmüller’s] exhaustive research and  trenchant analysis make  this book a landmark contribution to Jewish economic history and  the study of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.” • Canadian Journal of History“Christoph Kreutzmüller's book is vigorously researched, elegantly structured and well-written, and succeeds in providing new information on a subject already exhaustively studied, namely ‘Aryanization’ and the destruction of business, that extends beyond the borders of Berlin.” • H-Net