Germanization and Exclusion of Jews in the Westböhmischer Bergbau-Aktien-Verein (West Bohemian Mining Joint-stock Association)

This case study analyzes the process of the Aryanization and Germanization in an important joint-stock mining association in the Czech Lands. Rarely preserved source material enables an insight behind the scenes of the implementation of the design and demonstrates authority ambiguities of the Nazi administration, providing space for assertion of personal interests. It clearly illustrates one of the roles of the banking sector, in this case the Dresdner Bank, in the process of Aryanization.