The culpability of accounting in perpetuating the Holocaust

Accounting History

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-303

  Lippman, Ellen J ^a   Wilson, Paula A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountant culpability; Accountant responsibility; Accounting history; German accounting history; German accounting profession; Holocaust; Slave labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855255157     PISSN: 10323732     EISSN: 17493374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1032373207079028     Document Type: Review

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