1st Edition

Accounting for the Holocaust Enabling the Final Solution

Edited By Warwick Funnell, Michele Bigoni, Erin Twyford Copyright 2024
286 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Accounting for the Holocaust: Enabling the Final Solution reveals how accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-like efficiency and devoid of any moral considerations. This largely hidden aspect of the Holocaust will allow a wide range of readers, both academic and across many sectors of the... Read more

1. Accounting and the Dehumanisation of the “Other” 2. Accounting for the “Final Solution” 3. Accounting and the “Jewish Spirit”: Justifying Jewish Persecution 4. Popular Culture and Totalitarianism: Accounting for Propaganda in Italy under the Fascist Regime (1934–1945) 5. Accounting for Jewish Financial Death 6. The Expulsion of Jews from the Accountancy Profession in Fascist Italy 7. Accounting for the Nazi Aryanisation of German Banks 8. Accounting and Expropriation of Jewish Property in Fascist Italy 1939–1945 9. Accounting for the Fossoli Concentration Camp 10. The Culpability of Accounting in Perpetuating the Holocaust 11. To Live or to Die: Experiences of Jewish Accountants and Auditors in Italy 1938–1945 12. Knowing the Holocaust

Biography

Warwick Funnell is Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Public Sector Accountability at Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Michele Bigoni is a Reader in Accounting at Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Erin Twyford is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Wollongong, Gwynneville, NSW, Australia.