Götz Aly Libri

Il nazionalsocialismo fu una dittatura implacabile con le popolazionisottomesse ma compassionevole e compiacente verso il popolo tedesco. La sua principale preoccupazione fu alimentare il consenso della nazione tedesca, con politiche che oggi definiremmo di welfare state. Programmi di sostegno ai più deboli, sovvenzioni per le famiglie dei combattenti, reti di sicurezza sociale. Il tutto fu finanziato con la rapina selvaggia e sistematica delle nazioni asservite dalla guerra: depredate delle materie prime, colpite nella moneta nazionale, saccheggiate di ogni bene. Ricavando dalla guerra di rapina le risorse per il sistema del consenso, Hitler e i suoi uomini si comportarono come classici uomini politici attenti agli umori dei loro cittadini. Chiedendosi sempre come garantire la soddisfazione del popolo tedesco o quantomeno la sua indifferenza. Per questo la dittatura hitleriana poté contare perla gran parte della sua durata sull'appoggio della maggioranza dei cittadini tedeschi.

Da molti anni Götz Aly si interroga sul passato nazionalsocialista e ogni volta arriva a risposte scomode e inquietanti. Chi voglia conoscere meglio la storia tedesca del Novecento deve confrontarsi necessariamente con i risultati delle sue ricerche.All'inizio del XIX secolo gli ebrei tedeschi seppero cogliere le opportunità offerte dalla nuova libertà economica. Essi si riversarono nelle professioni allora emergenti: divennero commercianti, imprenditori, medici, avvocati, banchieri e giornalisti. Inoltre garantirono ai propri figli un'istruzione di buon livello: intorno al 1900, in Germania, gli studenti ebrei che conseguivano la maturità erano otto volte di piú dei loro compagni cristiani.La reazione dei tedeschi, piú lenti nella loro ascesa sociale, fu caratterizzata da invidia e gelosia: sostennero la necessità di proteggere i cristiani, non gli ebrei; cercarono appoggio e conforto nella collettività, tentarono di accrescere la loro autostima denigrando gli altri - gli ebrei. Questo libro si allontana dai consueti modelli concettuali sulle origini della barbarie nazista. Götz Aly indaga e descrive con lucidità le radici più profonde dell'antisemitismo omicida, radici che affondano nel cuore pulsante della storia e della società tedesca.

Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the set of demographers, economists, geographers and planners in the period between the disorderly excesses of the November 1938 pogrom and the fully effective operation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz in summer 1942. The authors, both journalists and historians, argue that this group of intellectuals, often combining academic, civil service and Party functions made an indispensable contribution to the planning and execution of the Final Solution. More than that, in the economic and demographic rationale of these experts, the Final Solution was only one element in a far reaching programme of selfsufficiency which privileged the German Aryan population.

"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"-- Provided by publisher

"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 in this groundbreaking study, we must examine its prehistory throughout Europe. We must look at countries as far-flung as Romania and France, Russia and Greece, where, decades before the Nazis came to power, a deadly combination of envy, competition, nationalism, and social upheaval fueled a surge of anti-Semitism, creating the preconditions for the deportations and murder to come. In the late nineteenth century, new opportunities for education and social advancement were opening up, and Jewish minorities took particular advantage of them, leading to widespread resentment. At the same time, newly created nation-states, especially in the east, were striving for ethnic homogeneity and national renewal, goals which they saw as inextricably linked. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unpublished sources, Aly traces the sequence of events that made persecution of Jews an increasingly acceptable European practice. Ultimately, the German architects of genocide found support for the Final Solution in nearly all the countries they occupied or were allied with. Without diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators, Aly documents the involvement of all of Europe in the destruction of the Jews, once again deepening our understanding of this most tormented history"-- Provided by publisher

"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 in this groundbreaking study, we must examine its prehistory throughout Europe. We must look at countries as far-flung as Romania and France, Russia and Greece, where, decades before the Nazis came to power, a deadly combination of envy, competition, nationalism, and social upheaval fueled a surge of anti-Semitism, creating the preconditions for the deportations and murder to come. In the late nineteenth century, new opportunities for education and social advancement were opening up, and Jewish minorities took particular advantage of them, leading to widespread resentment. At the same time, newly created nation-states, especially in the east, were striving for ethnic homogeneity and national renewal, goals which they saw as inextricably linked. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unpublished sources, Aly traces the sequence of events that made persecution of Jews an increasingly acceptable European practice. Ultimately, the German architects of genocide found support for the Final Solution in nearly all the countries they occupied or were allied with. Without diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators, Aly documents the involvement of all of Europe in the destruction of the Jews, once again deepening our understanding of this most tormented history"-- Provided by publisher

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 after her death, when Götz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and restore this child to history. In what is as much a detective story as a historical reconstruction, Aly, praised for his "formidable research skills" (Christopher Browning), traces the Samuel family's agonizing decline from shop owners to forced laborers to deportees. Against all odds, Aly manages to recover expropriation records, family photographs, and even a trace of Marion's voice in the premonition she confided to a school friend: "People disappear," she said, "into the tunnel." A gripping account of a family caught in the tightening grip of persecution, Into the Tunnel is a powerful reminder that the millions of Nazi victims were also, each one, an individual life.

A book with dozens of photos and documents recounts the history of the first branded condoms in Germany and the culture that allowed them to thrive, the machinations by which the Nazis robbed Jews of their businesses, and the tragedy of a man whose love for his country was betrayed by its government and his fellow citizens.

Das zentrale Standardwerk ›Endlösung‹ des bekannten Historikers Götz Aly, bei seinem Erscheinen 1995 ein entscheidender Schritt in der Erforschung der Geschichte des Holocaust, liegt jetzt in einer durchgesehenen und aktualisierten Neuausgabe vor. Götz Aly zeigte als Erster, wie sich in einem langen Prozess die Entscheidung herauskristallisierte, die Juden Europas zu ermorden. Es gab keinen »Beschluss«. Zuerst dominierte der Gedanke, »Lebensraum« für das deutsche Volk zu schaffen, man verfiel auf die Idee, alle Juden nach Madagaskar zu verschiffen, dann folgten die Ghettos und Konzentrationslager, schließlich der Vernichtungskrieg und die Gaskammern. In keinem anderen Buch ist die Geschichte dieses Entscheidungsprozesses so ausführlich, zwingend und klar geschildert - ein Meilenstein der Holocaust-Forschung. Die Neuausgabe wurde um ein Vorwort von Raul Hilberg ergänzt.