The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank

Examining the role of the Deutsche Bank Germany''s largest commercial bank in the Nazi dictatorship Harold James asks how the bank accommodated itself to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. How did the new Zeitgeist influence the bank? What opportunities for profit did it see in the National Socialist route out of the Great Depression? What role did anti-Semitism play in the bank''s business relations and its dealing with employees? How was the bank connected to Auschwitz?