Götz Aly

Why the Germans? Why the Jews?

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, and claims that German anti-semitism did not originate with racist ideology or religous animosity, but with material envy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan US / St. Martin's Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9781250062642
• ISBN-10: 1250062640
• Artikelnr.: 40760406

Autorenporträt

Götz Aly is the author of Hitler's Beneficiaries and Why the Germans? Why the Jews?, among other books. One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, he has received the National Jewish Book Award, as well as Germany's prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize, the Ludwig Börne Prize, and the Geschwister Scholl Prize, among numerous other honors. His books have been translated into 13 languages. He lives in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments and Translator's Note ix
Introduction: The Question of Questions 1
1. Jewish Emancipation 13?
2. The Anxiety of German Nationalism 42?
3. Anti-Semitism as a Political Force 65?
4. The Mainstream's Dangerous Indifference 86?
5. War, Defeat, and Jew Hatred 99?
6. Weak Masses, Strong Race 127?
7. The National Socialist People's Party 181?
Epilogue: A Story with No End 219
Notes 235?
Bibliography 253?
Index 277