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| Publisher | Picador |
| ISBN 13 | 9781250062642 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250062640 |
| Author | Gotz Aly |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Countless people have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and perceptive as those of German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust, from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism did not originate with racist ideology or religious animosity, as is often supposed. Instead, through striking statistics and economic analysis, he demonstrates that it was rooted in a more basic emotion: material envy. Resenting the success of the urban, well-educated Jewish minority in the rapidly modernizing world, Germans embraced compensatory theories of Jewish racial inferiority. And the growing resentment, pervading society, provided fertile ground for Hitler and his genocidal politics. |
| About the Author | 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. |
| Publication Date | 7 April 2015 |
| Number of Pages | 304 pages |
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
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