Frank Bajohr (born 16 August 1961 in Gladbeck) is a German historian, best known for his books "Aryanisation" in Hamburg (2002), Erik Blumenfeld (2010), and The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust (2015).
His research focuses on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and he is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books that have received critical acclaim.
One of his best known books is Aryanisation' in Hamburg: The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of Their Property in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 which reviewer Martin Dean described as "path-breaking" because of its focus on the early period of persecution of the Jews and the participation of the German population in the seizure of Jewish property:[8]Frank Bajohr's path-breaking work is an excellent regional study that anticipated the direction of much recent scholarship and points the way for others to follow.
When first published in 1997, his monograph went against the predominant line of research on Nazi Germany, a trend that had sought to explain the persecution of the Jews mainly in terms of the centralized structures of Himmler and Heydrich's security forces.
His analysis of the progressive exclusion of Jews from the local economy, the "Aryanization" of their businesses, and the seizure of their property emphasizes the cumulative and self-radicalizing nature of this process.