Why the Germans? Why the Jews?
Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2015
Summary
Why 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 origi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250062642 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1250062640 |
| Author: | Götz Aly |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 208mm x 144mm |
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Critics Review
“Brilliant, passionate, provocative.” –Micha Brumlik, Die Zeit
“Consistently absorbing … a penetrating and provocative study [that] offers shrewd insight into the German mindset over the last two centuries.” –The Jewish Daily Forward
“The most important contribution to the massive literature on the subject. Aly’s analysis of a deeply rooted social malady has made the incomprehensible comprehensible.” –Michael Blumenthal, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
About The Author
Götz Aly
Gotz Aly is the author of Hitler’s Beneficiaries and Into the Tunnel, among other books. One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, he has received the National Jewish Book Award, Germany’s prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize, and numerous other honors.
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