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Goetz Aly is the author of Hitler's Beneficiaries and Why the Germans? Why the Jews?, among other books. One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, he has received the National Jewish Book Award, as well as Germany's prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize, the Ludwig Boerne Prize, and the Geschwister Scholl Prize, among numerous other honors. His books have been translated into 13 languages. He lives in Berlin.
Aly is an earnest, tireless compiler of the often arcane or overlooked [with] a masterly command of the facts of the Nazi catastrophe. . . . his most ambitious effort. --The New York Times Book Review If HBO's The Plot Against America makes you want to know the grim real-life context, read German historian Goetz Aly's new book, Europe Against the Jews. --New York Magazine Sweeping and persuasive . . . Aly makes a convincing case that the 'pace and extent' of the genocide could not have been achieved without widespread cooperation. This expertly researched account is destined to influence future histories of the Holocaust. --Publishers Weekly A major work on anti-Semitism of incredible research and singular scholarship. . . . Aly delivers again, this time expanding his lens outside of Germany to offer further revelations about the Holocaust. --Kirkus Reviews Aly's panorama of horror is devastating. This is often a tough read--but a necessary one. --Der Spiegel Aly's most ambitious book yet . . . Offers a vivid and disturbing tableau of European antisemitism movements from the birth of modern antisemitism to the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust . . . Despite its grim subject matter, Europe Against the Jews is also a page-turner. --Mark Roseman, Antisemitism Studies Goetz Aly's account comes alive with its descriptive details. They are what reveal the true infamy of anti-Jewish persecution. --Frankfurter Rundschau Goetz Aly . . . uses exemplary individual destinies with their small stories to tell a much larger story, which makes this book all the more urgent. --Bayerischer Rundfunk Historian Goetz Aly unfolds a panorama of enmity in Europe Against the Jews. His book has arrived just at the right time because it shows how much European hatred of Jews was stoked by nationalism. --Deutschlandfunk radio Reading this book, you have to ask yourself: What flaw in those democracies helped nurture an anti-Semitism that made the Holocaust possible? And when you've finished, you can't help but ask yourself: What flaw in present-day European democracies has helped nurture anger and resentment toward refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants, and where will this story end? --Freie Presse This book couldn't be more current. Aly gives a persuasive answer to the urgent question: What laid the groundwork for the anti-Semitism in Europe that allowed the National Socialists to find support for the Final Solution? --Handelsblatt What Aly has unearthed in Eastern European archives and elsewhere yields a wealth of previously unpublished evidence . . . a comprehensive and disturbing overview of European anti-Semitism. --Suddeutsche Zeitung
