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In their book "The History of the House of Bahlsen. Biscuits - War - Consumption 1911-1974" (2024), Hartmut Berghoff and Manfred Grieger describe the history of a medium-sized company from the late German Empire to the Federal Republic. At the same time, they offer detailed insights into the economic and political history as well as the social and consumer history of a time full of upheavals.
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- How did the middle class respond to National Socialism?
- How did family entrepreneurs think and act in the face of the political and economic upheavals of the 20th century?
- How did they shape their relationship with their workforce? And how were foreign forced laborers treated in the "Third Reich"?
The authors explore these questions on the basis of sources that have not yet been evaluated.
Hartmut Berghoff is director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen. From 2008 to 2015 he headed the German Historical Institute in Washington. His publications include Modern Corporate History (2004, 2nd ed. 2016) and Merit and Legacy. Family Businesses in Germany and the USA since 1800 (2020, co-author).
Manfred Grieger teaches as an honorary professor at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen. From 1998 to 2016 he headed the Historical Communication Department of Volkswagen AG. His publications include The Volkswagen Factory and its Workers in the Third Reich (1996, co-author) and Sartorius in National Socialism (2019).
Christine Glauning, historian, is director of the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor at the Topography of Terror Foundation.
(IN GERMAN)
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March 2025
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