Morality and memory: reflections on business ethics and national socialism
TitleMorality and memory: reflections on business ethics and national socialism
Author
Call numberS940.5318/005
Object number05556CG
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherFrank Cass
Year of publication
2001
Dimensionspp60-82
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'The Journal of Holocaust Education' Vol.10 No.3 2001 pp60-82
Description
Explores the self-understanding of West German business leaders in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It argues that business leaders were never silent about the Nazi years and, in fact, regularly addressed the implications of their own and their companies' accommodations to Hitler. Rather than denying any connections to the Nazi economy, industrialists tried to cast their behaviour as highly moral