Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

Two of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building...
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Author: Götz Aly
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Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction by Aly, Götz

Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

$207.63

Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

$207.63
Author: Götz Aly
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Two of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, Architects of Annihilation shows how the unthinkable technocratic "solutions" to Germany's wartime problems were not only thought but spelled out and implemented. Documenting the eager participation of some of the country's best and brightest, it rejects interpretations that identify only Nazi leaders as the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

For Hitler's thinkers--career-minded demographers, geographers, economists, civil servants, and academics in the Third Reich's think tanks and bureaucratic offices--Europe was a drawing board on which to work out their grand designs. They were encouraged to rationalize production methods, standardize products, introduce an international division of labor, and modernize and simplify social structures. Ultimately, their work on everything from food shortages to birth control led to the sinister plan to "adjust" the ratio between "productive" or "unproductive" population groups.

The ideas of these ever more radical and ideologically aggressive technocrats culminated in proposals that--using carefully guarded scientific and academic euphemisms--advocated state-directed mass extermination as a necessary and logical component of social modernization. And, not well known outside of Germany, these thinkers proposed not only one "final solution" but serial genocides, planned in detail to be carried out over several decades.

This groundbreaking and controversial account of Hitler's planners received widespread attention when it appeared in Germany. Now a masterful translation makes it available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Author: Götz Aly, Susanne Heim
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/17/2003
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.68h x 6.46w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780691089386

About the Author
Götz Aly is a Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. His books include Final Solution and Cleansing the Fatherland. Susanne Heim is an investigative journalist and historian based in Berlin.

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