Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust (Aly Gtz)(Pevná vazba)

A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick 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 was--to a previously overlooked extent--driven in large part by material concerns, not racist ideology or religious animosity. As Germany made its way through the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, the difficulties of the lethargic, economically backward German majority stood in marked contrast to the social and economic success of the agile Jewish minority. This success aroused envy and fear among the Gentile
více informací