"Final Solution": Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jew - Hardcover

Aly, Götz; Cooper, Belinda; Brown, Allison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340677570 ISBN 13: 9780340677575

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Götz Aly was born in Heidelberg and got his degree from the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University. He is the author, with Susanne Heim, of Vordenker der Vernichtung: Auschwitz und die Pläne für eine neue europäische Orndung (1991).

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340677570
• ISBN 13: 9780340677575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 305