Götz Aly
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages : 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. The 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...
Author
Language
English
Description
A stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich-and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state
In 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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 4 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Embark on a unique journey through the bleakest chapter of German history as Michael Kloft traces the story of the Third Reich. Learn about the politics, war years, and crimes of the Nazis from unpublished footage and three famous historians: Sir Ian Kershaw, Brigitte Hamann, and Goetz Aly.
