This research project of the Research Institute for Social and Economic History at the University of Cologne is to clarify the process and causes of the theft of precious metals by the Nazis as well as explaining the economic utilization of the stolen property between 1938 and 1945, giving...

The law on Foreign Exchange Control, which had been passed as early as 1931 in oder to fight the scarcity of foreign currency, was used to impede the transfer of Jewish property abroad immediately after the Nazis came to power. However, only from 1935 on, legislation on foreign currency aimed at...

The British Oxygen Company (BOC) had a virtual monopoly on the supply of industrial gases (e.g. oxygen and acetylene) on the British market through the 1950s, when it was finally challenged by an American-based company, Air Products. Air Products Limited (APL) was able to undercut BOC's...

[fre] Résumé . Avant 1933, l'entreprise Degussa de Francfort/Main contrôlait la branche allemande des métaux précieux. Par sa position de leader du marché que lui conférait son implication dans de nombreux cartels, les importations et les exportations qu'elle réalisait assuraient un...

This Article contains different data (sales, market shares etc.) about the quantitative development of the West German department stores from 1948 to 2000 and their detailed description.

This paper contains data on the quantitative development of the West German retailing from 1949 until 2000 and a detailed description of the data. The data show explicitly the development of the West German Mass Consumption Society in this period.