Architects of Annihilation
Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
Published on 9. January 2003
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-297-84278-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 self-sufficiency which privileged the German Aryan population.
Reviews / Votes
The front page of the OBSERVER books section carried this large review full of praise. "How, 60 years on, can there be anything fresh left to think, write or research about the Holocaust... Yet this new work, from a couple of young German historians, is still a revelation." "Gotz and Heim have written a fascinating and important book, illuminating an aspect of the grim history of the Third Reich with care and excoriating honesty." AC GRAYLING, FINANCIAL TIMES "Architects of Annihilation is a disturbing read. Authoritatively well-researched , it blows away many of the popular myths which surround Hitler's hand in genocide." THE HERALD "This is an important, honest, unsensational, thought-provoking book, the more important because the authors are German. We should be grateful for - and respectful of - that" DAILY TELEGRAPH We have set anMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
683 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-297-84278-1 (9780297842781)
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Persons
Gotz Aly is a freelance journalist and historian living in Berlin. He is also the author of Final Solution (Arnold, 1999) and co-author of Cleansing the Fatherland : Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene (John Hopkins University Press, 1994). Susanne Heim is Deputy Research Director of the Max Plank Society in Berlin. She has edited various political journals and is currently preparing a major study on Jewish emigration and refugee policy in the 1930s. Susanne Heim is Deputy Research Director of the Max Plank Society in Berlin. She has edited various political journals and is currently preparing a major study on Jewish emigration and refugee policy in the 1930s.