Final Solution: Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews - Hardcover

Aly, Gotz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340677570 ISBN 13: 9780340677575

Publisher: Hodder Education, 1999

Synopsis

How and why was a modern European state capable, in the middle of the 20th century, of planning and carrying out the industrially-organized mass murder of six million Jews, male, female, adults and children? This text provides a detailed reconstruction of the Final Solution to answer this question. It explores the ideological imperative in the Nazi state to "solve the Jewish question" and Hitler's own role, and investigates the actions of those running the Reich Security Headquarters in Berlin and those lesser figures on the ground who were in the eye of the storm, grappling with the planning failures inherent in Nazi settlement plans and experiencing mounting difficulties in trying to be rid of "their" Jews.

About this title

About the Author

Götz Aly was born in Heidelberg and got his degree from the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University. He is the author, with Susanne Heim, ofVordenker der Vernichtung: Auschwitz und die Pläne für eine neue europäische Orndung (1991).

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340677570
• ISBN 13: 9780340677575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311