ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author discusses his recently published Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-19451 which has appeared in both German and English. The book is intended to be a comprehensive study of Germany’s largest insurance company during the National Socialist period, and thus deals with a good deal more than the problem of Holocaust assets. The first four chapters of the book describe and analyze the relationship between the concern’s leaders and the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1938. Two of the chapters in the book deal in great detail with central issues involved in the question of the relationship between insurance companies and the confiscation of Jewish assets, respectively, the Pogrom of November 9-11,1938 and the confiscation of Jewish insurance assets. The last chapter of the book deals with the problems of postwar denazification and restitution and compensation, a field that needs a great deal more scholarly work and investigation.
