Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Aly, Gotz
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Aly, Gotz

Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

A provocative account of great intellectual significance, illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich--and the reasons...
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Author: Gotz Aly
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Aly, Gotz

Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

$48.58
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Aly, Gotz

Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

$48.58
Author: Gotz Aly
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A provocative account of great intellectual significance, illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich--and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state (The New York Times Book Review)

In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale--and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs--Hitler literally bought his people's consent.

Drawing on secret files and financial records, Aly shows that while Jews and citizens of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed an improved standard of living. Buoyed by millions of packages soldiers sent from the front, Germans also benefited from the systematic plunder of Jewish possessions. Any qualms were swept away by waves of tax breaks and government handouts.

Hitler's Beneficiaries has been hailed as startling by Richard Evans, and as fascinating and important by Christopher Browning. Above all, as Omer Bartov testifies, this remarkable book irreversibly transforms our understanding of the Third Reich.

Author: Gotz Aly
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 01/08/2008
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780805087260


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/02/2008 pg. 28

About the Author

One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Götz Aly is the author of Architects of Annihilation and Into the Tunnel, among other books. Winner of Germany's most prestigious history award, Aly has also been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and currently teaches at the Free University of Berlin.




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