Architects of Annihilation
Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
Published on 24. September 2015
384 pages
978-1-4746-0274-7 (ISBN)
Description
Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the 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
Gotz Aly is one of the most able and exciting young German historians working on the Third Reich -- Niall Ferguson A revelation . . . Aly and Heim marshal their facts meticulously . . . there is never any question of stopping, of drawing breath, before the chronicle is over * OBSERVER * This is an important, honest, unsensational, thought-provoking book * DAILY TELEGRAPH *More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,69 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4746-0274-7 (9781474602747)
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12/2003
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Persons
Gotz Aly (Author)
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 (Author)
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.
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 (Author)
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.
