Accounting for the Holocaust
Enabling the Final Solution
- 286 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Accounting for the Holocaust: Enabling the Final Solution reveals how accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-like efficiency and devoid of any moral considerations.
This largely hidden aspect of the Holocaust will allow a wide range of readers, both academic and across many sectors of the general population, to understand how the systematic murder of more than six million Jews was expedited by accounting practices and the information that these produced by allowing the humanity of those killed to be denied when they became mere numbers in a process. Readers will gain a new understanding of how the enactment of the scale of the Holocaust was made possible by the way in which accounting practices as "technologies of death" were used to reduce Jews to a life without value. The numerical calculations, techniques, and reports that constitute accounting practices allowed the systematic murder of Jews to be drained of any considerations that would imply that the numbers and costings were related to prescient human beings. These technologies of death also allowed those who managed and organised the murder of Jews to absolve themselves of the actual killings.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- 1 Accounting and the dehumanisation of the Jewish “Other”
- 2 Accounting for the “Final Solution”
- 3 Accounting and the “Jewish Spirit”: Justifying Jewish persecution
- 4 Popular culture and totalitarianism: Accounting for propaganda in Italy under the Fascist regime (1934–1945)
- 5 Accounting for Jewish financial death
- 6 The expulsion of Jews from the accountancy profession in Fascist Italy
- 7 Accounting for the Nazi Aryanisation of German banks
- 8 Accounting and expropriation of Jewish property in Fascist Italy 1939–1945
- 9 Accounting for the Fossoli concentration camp
- 10 The culpability of accounting in perpetuating the Holocaust
- 11 To live or to die: Experiences of Jewish accountants and auditors in Italy 1938–1945
- 12 Knowing the Holocaust
- Index