Zierenberg Berlin’s Black Market

1939-1950
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-01775-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Worlds of Consumption

This book puts the illegal economy of the German capital during and after World War II into context and provides a new interpretation of Germany's postwar history. The black market, it argues, served as a reference point for the beginnings of the two new German states.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zierenberg, Malte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Prologues

2. The Wartime Networks: The Martha Rebbien Case

3. Destruction, Disorientation and New Patterns of Order: Changes in the Black Market Landscape during the Transition from War to Postwar

4. Black Markets from the End of the War to the Currency Reform

5. Stories of a New Beginning: The Economy of the Streets between the Currency Reform and the 'Economic Miracle'

Conclusion: Black Market Trading as a Radical Experience of a Free Market

Über Autor(innen)

Malte Zierenberg is an Assistant Professor of twentieth-century European History at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He specializes in Urban, Economic, and Transnational Media History.