
- 2002/417 pages
- Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers
War Crimes of the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank:
Office of Military Government (U.S.) Reports
Hardcover: $55.00
ISBN: 978-0-8419-1407-0
In 1946-1947 the Finance Division of the Office of Military Government (OMGUS) recommended that Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank leaders be tried as war criminals and barred from ever holding positions of importance in German economic and political life. But these recommendations were never implemented, and officials from both banks went on to become key figures in German postwar development. Decades later, Christopher Simpson has uncovered the full story of the OMGUS reports, reproducing hundreds of pages gleaned from declassified reports and analyzing their significance in light of today's heated debates over the reemergence of these banks as financial giants, their role in the Holocaust, and how historical memory is to be defined.