Expediting Expropriation and Expulsion: The Impact of the “Vienna Model” on Anti-Jewish Policies in Nazi Germany, 1938
Historians often underestimate the significance of indigenous antisemitic policies that evolved in Austria in 1938. The exclusion of the Jews from the Austrian economy and their subsequent expulsion from the country resulted from neither premeditated planning nor German laws. Rather they grew out of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2000
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2000, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 390-414 |
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| Summary: | Historians often underestimate the significance of indigenous antisemitic policies that evolved in Austria in 1938. The exclusion of the Jews from the Austrian economy and their subsequent expulsion from the country resulted from neither premeditated planning nor German laws. Rather they grew out of a progression of unofficial looting and official confiscation, and only subsequently became rationalized into pseudo-legal procedures and unprecedented institutions. By late spring, 1938 Austrian functionaries, having effectively deprived Jews of control over their own property, created a system of compulsory “Aryanization.” The following examines the influence of Austrian proposals on leaders of the Reich, from the “registration” of Jewish property in April 1938 up through the notorious conference that Göring convened on November 12 following Kristallnacht. That conference initiated the application throughout the Reich of decrees and institutions originally crafted in Vienna: the so-called “Vienna Model.” |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/14.3.390 |