The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank

Harold James is Professor of History at Princeton University and chairman of the editorial board of World Politics. He is the author of several books on German economy and society, including The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (Cambridge, 2001)

• List of figures and table; Preface; 1. The setting; 2. The initial challenge: National Socialist ideology; 3. Anti-Semitism and the German banks; 4. Emil Georg von Stauss: the banker as politician; 5. Foreign expansion; 6. The expansion of state and party during the war; 7. The end of dictatorship; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'James' monograph is well researched and documented. By drawing together the most important elements of his two previous publications, James' monograph of Deutsche Bank is more readily accessible to readers. We are left with the image of a bank that reluctantly became involved in the racist and expansionary policies of the Third Reich, whose powers were subordinated to the state.' Business History