Hitler's Beneficiaries

Aly is the enfant terrible of modern German history. One of the most consistently original and provocative historians of the Nazi regime, he is an outlaw among Germany's academic fiefdoms, with a relentless passion for obscure hitherto unnoticed files and an astonishing eye for detail. * Daily Telegraph * Goetz Aly is a highly original thinker who has made a range of breakthroughs in Holocaust Studies. -- Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of the European Jews Germany's most influential popular historian * London Review of Books * Serious and well-researched. * New York Times * A pathbreaking work. -- Amos Elon, author of <i>The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany</i> Aly once again brings to bear his formidable research skills, his knack for pursuing original lines of inquiry, and his incredible capacity to uncover neglected and seemingly innocuous documents . a fascinating and important book. -- Christopher R. Browning, author of <i>Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland</i> This rewriting of history, which dismantles the conventional distinction between fanatical Nazis and sober civil servants, will irreversibly transform our understanding of the Third Reich. -- Omer Bartov, author of <i>Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories</i> Aly has written a brilliant yet disturbing book that shatters our complacencies. -- John Patrick Diggins, author of <i>Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy</i> Thoroughly researched and fluently written, this book offers a new, brilliant, gripping, and convincing dimension to the understanding of one of the most puzzling questions in the history of our times: Why did so many Germans, both Nazis and 'ordinary people,' support the persecution of the Jews? We've heard much about ideology, sociology, and psychology: it's time to pay attention to profit. -- Tom Segev, author of <i>The Seventh Million: Israel Confronts the Holocaust</i>