Final Solution: Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews - Couverture rigide

Aly, Gotz

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340677570 ISBN 13 : 9780340677575

Editeur : Hodder Arnold, 1999

Synopsis

How and why was a modern European state capable, in the middle of the 20th century, of planning and carrying out the industrially-organized mass murder of six million Jews, male, female, adults and children? This text provides a detailed reconstruction of the Final Solution to answer this question. It explores the ideological imperative in the Nazi state to "solve the Jewish question" and Hitler's own role, and investigates the actions of those running the Reich Security Headquarters in Berlin and those lesser figures on the ground who were in the eye of the storm, grappling with the planning failures inherent in Nazi settlement plans and experiencing mounting difficulties in trying to be rid of "their" Jews.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

This outstanding work - based on detailed research, often into hitherto untapped sources - is the best analysis to date of the complex developments between 1939 and 1941 that produced the Nazi genocide against the Jews.

(Ian Kershaw)

Much of the documentation, insight, and argument of the book are both new and important... a fine book from which no one seriously interested in the subject can fail to profit.

(Neue Politische Literatur)

Aly is one of the most original, prolific, and controversial figures in this new cohort of historians... his arguments cannot be dismissed easily, since he is an indefatigable researcher as well as a powerful writer... his conclusions are always challenging and provocative... Final Solution is an important addition to the literature on the origins of the Holocaust, and it should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the context within which the genocide of the Jews occurred.

(The New Republic)

Aly is among the most original and controversial German writers on the Holocaust.

(Choice)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 those numerous lesser figures on the ground who were in the eye of the storm, grappling with the planning failures inherent in Nazi resettlement plans and experiencing mounting difficulties in trying to be rid of 'their' Jews. Aly illustrates, through the evidence he builds into an overall mosaic, the lunacy of Nazi race policy, and the variety of agencies that went into the gradual shaping of a policy of all-out genocide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Arnold
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340677570
• ISBN 13: 9780340677575
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 311
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible