Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe
Aldershot. 2002
Editors
Harold James
Jakob Tanner
The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in property rights. How far did businesses attempt to guide this intervention for their own purposes, and to what extent did they succeed? This debate deals, centrally, with the role of German business, of banks, of industrial corporations, and of small tradesmen in the Nazi regime. An older discussion of how they may have facilitated the Nazi takeover has been supplemented here by an investigation into how they made the regime’s policies possible, and the extent to which the profit motive drove them to participate in the politics of inhumanity.
Table of contents
- The Economic Origins and Dimensions of the European Fascism (Gerald D. Feldman)
- Banks and the Era of Totalitarianism: Banking in Nazi Germany (Harold James)
- Industry under the Swastika (Peter Hayes)
- Spanish Entrepreneurs in the Era of Fascism: From the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship to the Franco Dictatorship, 1923-1945 (Mercedes Cabrera, Fernando del Rey)
- The Fascist Regime and Big Business: The Fiatand the MontecatiniCases (Franco Amatori)
- Entrepreneurs and the Fascist Regime in Italy: From the Honeymoon to the Divorce (Luciano Segreto)
- Enterprises in Switzerland during the second World War (Jean-François Bergier)
- Business as Usual? The Danish Economy and Business during the German occupation (Per H. Hansen)
- Business in the Grossraumwirtschaft: Eastern Europe, 1938-1945 (Richard J. Overy)
- Polish and Jewish Entrepreneurs during the German Occupation in Poland, 1939-1945 (Zbigniew Landau)
- The Belgian Business Elite, Economic Exploitation and National Socialist Corporatism (Dirk Luyten)
- The Dutch Economy during the German occupation, 1940-1945 (Hein A.M. Klemann)
- French Enterprises under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (Patrick Fridenson)