| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Gerald D. Feldman. Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xxii, 568. $59.95.

A significant recent development in historical scrutiny of the Third Reich has been the opening of records of some of Germany's major business corporations to researchers. The need to respond to class-action litigation in the United States has spurred this trend, but even beforehand there was a growing recognition on the part of enlightened executives that the best way to deal with dark chapters of their companies' past is to subject them to untrammeled examination by professional historians. Since a paucity of knowledge about the role of the large corporations that dominated the German economy has long been a deficiency of the historiography of the Third Reich, this is a welcome development. 1

One of the fruits of this trend is Gerald D. Feldman's study, which was commissioned by a major German insurance firm, Allianz AG. With the financial support and cooperation of its management, Feldman and a staff of research assistants were able to compensate for the extensive wartime destruction of the firm's records by gathering relevant documentation from numerous repositories and reconstituting a company archive that is now open to other researchers. The book, written after completion of that task, was not vetted by the firm and thus stands as a work of independent scholarship. . . .

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