How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channelling the proceeds into generous social programmes-Hitler bought his people’s consent. Drawing on secret files and financial records, G�tz Aly shows that while Jews and people of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed a much-improved standard of living. Buoyed by the millions of packages soldiers sent from the front, Germans also benefited from the systematic plunder of conquered territory and the transfer of Jewish possessions into their homes and pockets. Any qualms were swept away by waves of government handouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation. Gripping and significant,
Hitler’s Beneficiaries makes a radically new contribution to our understanding of Nazi aggression, the Holocaust, and the complicity of a people.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries makes a radically new contribution to our understanding of Nazi aggression, the Holocaust, and the complicity of a people.
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One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Gotz Aly is the author of Architects of Annihilation, among other books. Winner of Germany’s prestigious history award, the Heinrich Mann prize, Aly has been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and currently teaches at the University of Frankfurt. He lives in Berlin.Mua cuốn sách điện tử này và nhận thêm 1 cuốn MIỄN PHÍ!
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