Includes bibliographical references and index.

A marketplace without Jews: occupation, everyday economics, and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe / Rory Yeomans -- The rise and fall of an Aryanization bank: The Romanian Credit Institute, 1941-1951 / Stefan Cristian Ionescu -- When economics was a racial endeavour: the Aryanization of Jewish stores and businesses in wartime Sarajevo / Sanja Gladanac-Petrović -- The socioeconomics of the Holocaust in Bulgaria: a case study of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, 1942-1944 / Roumen Avramov -- Reluctant beneficiaries of the Final Solution: popular responses to the plundering of Jewish property in occupied Belgrade / Rade Ristanović and Aleksandar Stojanović -- Factory purges and the expertise gap: how Aryanization impeded the construction of a "model workers' economy" in wartime Croatia / Rory Yeomans -- "Crumbs from the Table": Aryanization, ethnic competition, and the Final Solution in wartime Osijek / Hrvoje Volner -- Selective resistance to Romanianization: the coal industry and national minorities in the Jiu Valley, 1938-1943 / Anca Glont -- Stealing from the "undesired": the Porajmos and the plunder of Roma property in the Independent State of Croatia / Danijel Vojak -- A forgotten Aryanization: the Ustasha Regime, middle-class Serbs, and economic terror in wartime Zagreb / Filip Škiljan and Vlatka Dugački -- "The inhabitants live in our house arbitrarily": confiscation and the lack of restitution in Hungary, 1944-1946 / Borbala Klacsmann -- The dispossessed: Bulgarian Jews and the "Trial of the Antisemites," 1944-1945 / Nadège Ragaru.

"This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role that the mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews as well as other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in Southeastern Europe played in transforming economic life and social relations. It aims to understand how ordinary people in the region responded as beneficiaries, bystanders, perpetrators, rescuers, and, above all, victims to Aryanization, and how regimes and governments adapted its basic principles to their specific national contexts and ideological and ethnic agendas. Aryanization appeared in some of its most radical, accelerated and yet idiosyncratic forms in Southeastern Europe, representing a staging post or parallel process on the journey to the Final Solution. At the same time, it represented a modernizing project through which states on the periphery of Hitler's new Europe could not only catch up with the rest of the continent but seek to gain legitimacy among their own citizens by using systems of mass robbery to satisfy consumer demand and aspirations of social mobility in economies of want and scarcity. This volume is aimed at scholars and students of World War II and European fascism, genocide and occupation politics, Jewish studies, and Southeastern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.