Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

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Götz Aly

Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

Götz Aly

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English

Picador
01 May 2015

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict

Why did the Holocaust happen in Germany, of all places? How did a country known for its culture and refinement turn so rabidly anti-Semitic? Why did a nation where Jews had full civil rights and many opportunities - a place that Jews had eagerly flocked to in the early twentieth century to escape racist persecution in Poland and Russia - turn upon them so violently just a few decades later?

Countless people have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and perceptive as those of German historian Götz 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.

By: Götz Aly
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 282g
ISBN: 9781250062642
ISBN 10: 1250062640
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 May 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. He is currently the Sir Peter Ustinov guest professor at the University of Vienna.

Reviews for Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

Brilliant, passionate, provocative. --Micha Brumlik, Die Zeit Consistently absorbing ... a penetrating and provocative study [that] offers shrewd insight into the German mindset over the last two centuries. --The Jewish Daily Forward The most important contribution to the massive literature on the subject. Aly's analysis of a deeply rooted social malady has made the incomprehensible comprehensible. --Michael Blumenthal, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Brilliant, passionate, provocative. Micha Brumlik, Die Zeit Consistently absorbing ... a penetrating and provocative study [that] offers shrewd insight into the German mindset over the last two centuries. The Jewish Daily Forward The most important contribution to the massive literature on the subject. Aly's analysis of a deeply rooted social malady has made the incomprehensible comprehensible. Michael Blumenthal, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Brilliant, passionate, provocative. Micha Brumlik, Die Zeit Consistently absorbing ... a penetrating and provocative study [that] offers shrewd insight into the German mindset over the last two centuries. The Jewish Daily Forward The most important contribution to the massive literature on the subject. Aly's analysis of a deeply rooted social malady has made the incomprehensible comprehensible. Michael Blumenthal, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Brilliant, passionate, provocative. --Micha Brumlik, Die Zeit Consistently absorbing ... a penetrating and provocative study [that] offers shrewd insight into the German mindset over the last two centuries. -- The Jewish Daily Forward The most important contribution to the massive literature on the subject. Aly's analysis of a deeply rooted social malady has made the incomprehensible comprehensible. --Michael Blumenthal, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin