This book gives a detailed account of how two major Austrian banks profited from their service to the Nazi regime.
This book gives a detailed account of how two major banks - the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the Landerbank Wien - profited from their service to the Nazi regime. It traces their involvement in the dispossession of Jewish business owners and in financing industrial firms vital to the Third Reich's war effort.
Preface Hartmut Berghoff; Introduction Peter Hayes; Part I. The Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein: 1. Ownership, organization, and personnel of the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein, 1938¿45; 2. The Creditanstalt, its Jewish customers, and Aryanization; 3. An expanding Creditanstalt in an expanding German empire; Part II. The Länderbank Wien AG in the National Socialist Period: 4. The Mercurbank, the Länderbank Wien, and the Anschluss, 1933¿9: the role of the Dresdner Bank; 5. The Länderbank in the Second World War.