推 jagdzaku:所以我們也不能譴責納粹集中營和南京大屠殺? 02/19 21:33
推 djcc:現在還有誰譴責納粹集中營? 只要你夠理性的話 02/19 21:35
所以我想這篇文章應該非常不理性 是m板友的說的應該忘掉的過去
大概是出自自由時報或台灣日報或扁版那種"泛綠自咳的地方"
沒有國際觀沒有遠見 你說是吧?
Dresdner Bank and the Third Reich
Hitler's Willing Bankers
By Marc Young
Being known as the bank of choice for Heinrich Himmler's SS would be a PR
nightmare for any company. So the long postwar reluctance of top Dresdner Bank
executives to expose the bank's sordid history during the Nazi era is hardly
surprising.But the degree of Dresdner's complicity in many of the Third Reich's
worst crimes will be shocking to many who read the results of a new seven-year
study presented on Friday. A team of historians sponsored by Dresdner Bank
engaged in intensive research to unearth the full extent of the darkest chapter
of the bank's past. The massive study fills four volumes and nearly 2,400 pages
in what amounts to an unprecedented look at the role of a financial institution
in Nazi Germany.
"This calls it as it is. We accept these truths even when they are painful ones
," said Wulf Meier, a member of the Dresdner Bank board, at a press conference
in Berlin on Friday. He readily admitted the bank had been shy about delving in
to the past until public sentiment in the 1990s prodded several German firms to
do so. "After 1945 many people and institutions avoided questions about their
role during NS times." Most German firms carry a heavy historical burden for
what they did during the Nazi era. Dresdner Bank -founded in 1872 on the
initiative of a Jewish entrepreneur - is no exception. Placing capitalist logic
before morality, the bank systematically took part in the Third Reich's
repression of Germany's Jews and the confiscation of Jewish wealth and assets.
The team of historians, led by Dr. Klaus-Dietmar Henke from Dresden's Technical
University, took an exhaustive approach in compiling the bank's activities.
After seven years of research costing €1.6 million, "Dresdner Bank in the
Third Reich" paints a stark picture of how the firm actively courted Nazi favor
in order to make money and rapidly expand its business."There was a deep
symbiosis between National Socialism and capitalism," said Henke. Several of
Dresdner's board members belonged to the Nazi party, but much of Dresdner's
involvement with the party, Henke indicated, was driven more by business
concerns.
As an example of Dresdner's implicit knowledge about the murder of Germany's
Jewish population after their deportation to camps in Nazi occupied Eastern
Europe, the study cites the bank's unwillingness to pay pension payments for
retired Jewish Dresdner employees directly to the Reich. The Nazis claimed the
government should get the pensions to pay for the deportees' living expenses,
but Dresdner officials wanted proof that the Jews in the camps and ghettos were
still alive."Around 5 percent of Dresdner's workforce were Jewish - a much
higher percentage than the general population," said Dr. Dieter Ziegler for the
Ruhr University in Bochum. The study also shows the bank took part early on in
the Third Reich's policy of confiscating Jewish property and wealth. "It's a
myth that the bank was forced to take part in the 'Aryanizing' of Jewish wealth
," said Ziegler.But perhaps one of the most damning associations for Dresdner's
past managers is its close ties to Heinrich Himmler's SS. The bank was the most
important private lender for the Nazi organization and played a key role for
its operations in occupied Europe, essentially acting as the bank of the SS in
Poland. Henke commended Dresdner for allowing his team to take such thorough
look into the company's past and said he hoped it could encourage other firms
to support deeper research into their activities during the Third Reich.
c SPIEGEL ONLINE 2006
可是網址不是自由時報耶 但這想來也是"沒有國際觀又沒知識的泛綠同路人"寫的吧!:D
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,401575,00.html
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