New artice: Mortgages and Dispossession in Yad-Vashem-Studies 52/2

In the three years in which we collected the data for the database, we left out all companies that were dedicated to overseeing only a single house in Berlin – there were simply to many of them. A new article published by Carolin Lange and Christoph Kreutzmüller in Yad Vashem Studies shows how an independent German mortgage bank was willing to lend money to buy or build houses to Jews in order to keep its share in a shrinking market and to strengthen its foothold in Berlin. In fact, Jews wer...