"Final solution" : Nazi population policy and the murder of the European Jews / Götz Aly ; translated from the German by Belinda Cooper and Allison Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aly, Götz, 1947-

Contributor:

Cooper, Belinda.

Brown, Allison.

Standardized Title:

Endlösung Völkerverschiebung und der Mord an den europäischen Juden. English.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Population policy.

Germany--Population policy.

Germany.

Physical Description:

305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Arnold, [1999]

Summary:

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 rote, 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 of agencies that went into the shaping of a policy of all-out genocide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-295) and index.

ISBN:

0340677570

0340677589

OCLC:

40989363