{"title":"Götz Aly","description":"One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Götz Aly is the author of Architects of Annihilation and Into the Tunnel, among other books. Winner of Germany's most prestigious history award, Aly has also been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and currently teaches at the Free University of Berlin.","products":[{"product_id":"hitlers-beneficiaries-plunder-racial-war-and-the-nazi-welfare-state-paperback","title":"Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"provocative\" account of great \"intellectual significance,\" illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich--and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, historian Götz 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 people's consent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on secret files and financial records, Aly shows that while Jews and citizens of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed an improved standard of living. Buoyed by millions of packages soldiers sent from the front, Germans also benefited from the systematic plunder of Jewish possessions. Any qualms were swept away by waves of tax breaks and government handouts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHitler's Beneficiaries \u003c\/i\u003ehas been hailed as \"startling\" by Richard Evans, and as \"fascinating and important\" by Christopher Browning. Above all, as Omer Bartov testifies, this remarkable book \"irreversibly transforms our understanding of the Third Reich.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366149783775,"sku":"9780805087260","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xWcZJeMCO49780805087260.webp?v=1789084464"},{"product_id":"why-the-germans-why-the-jews-envy-race-hatred-and-the-prehistory-of-the-holocaust-paperback","title":"Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy 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 with answers as original and perceptive as those of German historian Götz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust--from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933--Aly shows that German anti-Semitism did not originate with racist ideology or religious animosity, as is often supposed. Instead, through striking statistics and economic analysis, he demonstrates that it was rooted in a more basic emotion: material envy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAly's groundbreaking account of this fatal social dynamic opens up a new vantage point on the greatest crime in history and is sure to prompt heated debate for years to come.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366650872031,"sku":"9781250062642","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uv27fl8ZxR9781250062642.webp?v=1789095245"},{"product_id":"europe-against-the-jews-1880-1945-paperback","title":"Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a History Pick by \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, the highly-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eEurope Against the Jews, 1880-1945\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state officials, police, and civilians who eagerly supported the genocide. If we are to fully understand how and why the Holocaust happened, Götz Aly argues in this groundbreaking study, we must examine its prehistory throughout Europe. We must look at countries as far-flung as Romania and France, Russia and Greece, where, decades before the Nazis came to power, a deadly combination of envy, competition, nationalism, and social upheaval fueled a surge of anti-Semitism, creating the preconditions for the deportations and murder to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the late nineteenth century, new opportunities for education and social advancement were opening up, and Jewish minorities took particular advantage of them, leading to widespread resentment. At the same time, newly created nation-states, especially in the east, were striving for ethnic homogeneity and national renewal, goals which they saw as inextricably linked. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unpublished sources, Aly traces the sequence of events that made persecution of Jews an increasingly acceptable European practice.\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, the German architects of genocide found support for the Final Solution in nearly all the countries they occupied or were allied with. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators, Aly documents the involvement of all of Europe in the destruction of the Jews, once again deepening our understanding of this most tormented history.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367973257439,"sku":"9781250787644","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jLsezGoPJl9781250787644.webp?v=1789116995"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/gotz-aly.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}