Two of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, Architects of Annihilation shows how the unthinkable technocratic "solutions" to Germany's wartime problems were not only thought but spelled out and implemented. Documenting the eager participation of some of the country's best and brightest, it rejects interpretations that identify only Nazi leaders as the...
Two of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's id...
-The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned... These significant attempts by younger recruits to the larger medical establishment to change things through eye-opening reflection and analysis, however uncomfortable, need support.---Michael H. Kater, author of Doctors under Hitler, in the foreword.
The infamous Nuremberg Doctors' Trials of 1946-47 revealed horrifying crimes --ranging from grotesque medical experiments on humans to mass murder--committed by...
-The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not ...
A "provocative" account of great "intellectual significance," illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich--and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state (The New York Times Book Review)
In this groundbreaking book, historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale--and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs--Hitler literally "bought" his...
A "provocative" account of great "intellectual significance," illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich--and the reasons ordinary Ge...
This is a study of the numerous academics and technocrats without whom Hitler's crude anti-Semitism could never have been translated into a systematic policy of genocide.
This is a study of the numerous academics and technocrats without whom Hitler's crude anti-Semitism could never have been translated into a systematic...
How did it come about that a modern European state in the middle of the twentieth century planned and carried out the industrially organized mass murder of six million Jews, male and female, adults and children? Making extensive use of Russian, German, and Polish archives, Aly has provided the most exact and detailed reconstruction of the "Final Solution" yet achieved. As well as looking at the ideological imperative in the Nazi state to "solve the Jewish question" and at Hitler's own role, Aly investigates the actions of those running the Reich Security Headquarters in Berlin and of...
How did it come about that a modern European state in the middle of the twentieth century planned and carried out the industrially organized mass murd...
Der Pogrom vom 9. und 10. November 1938, dem Hunderttausende zusahen, steht im Zentrum dieses Bandes. Den zweiten Schwerpunkt bildet die Verfolgung, der die 190 000 osterreichischen Juden seit dem Anschluss an Deutschland ausgesetzt waren, den dritten die Enteignung der Verfolgten. Und schliesslich dokumentiert dieser Band die Zwangsemigration der Juden aus Deutschland bis der Kriegsbeginn fur viele ein Entkommen unmoglich machte.
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Der Pogrom vom 9. und 10. November 1938, dem Hunderttausende zusahen, steht im Zentrum dieses Bandes. Den zweiten Schwerpunkt bildet die Verfolgung...
A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion
When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Sixty years after her death, when Gotz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and...
A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion
A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why did the Holocaust happen in Germany, of all places? How did a country known for its culture and refinement turn so rabidly anti-Semitic? Why did a nation where Jews had full civil rights and many opportunities a place that Jews had eagerly flocked to in the early twentieth century to escape racist persecution in Poland and Russia turn upon them so violently just a few decades later? Countless people have grappled with these questions, but few have come up...
A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why did the Holoc...
