Götz Aly Knihy

Podtitul: Přesun národů a vyhlazení evropských Židů. Studie popisuje, jak se vyvíjely plány i praktická realizace řešení "židovské otázky" v souvislosti s nacistickým projektem mocenské a demografické přestavby Evropy. Nacistická vize jednotného evropského hospodářského prostoru německého národa a s ní související přesídlování etnických Němců a vysídlování neněmeckého obyvatelstva, zejména Židů. Neúspěch původních plánů, které počítaly s vysídlením Židů na východ a úzce souvisely s vítězstvím Německa ve válce. "Konečné řešení židovské otázky"- jako rychlá a bezohledná likvidace milionů evropských Židů. Studie sleduje vývoj nacistické politiky v l. 1939-1942. Jednotlivé tematicky koncipované kapitoly jsou spojeny kapitolami, které obsahují chronologický přehled událostí daného období a zasazují problematiku do širšího historického rámce.

Provokativní a pronikavá analýza, která vrhá nové světlo na jednu z nejzáhadnějších a historicky nejznepokojivějších hádanek. Proč Němci? Proč Židé? Těmito otázkami se zabýval nespočet historiků, ale jen málokdo přišel s tak originálními odpověďmi jako svérázný německý historik Götz Aly. Ten sleduje prehistorii holokaustu od 19. století až po nástup nacistů k moci v roce 1933 a ukazuje, že německý antisemitismus byl – a to se dosud přehlíželo – z velké části veden materiálními zájmy, nikoli rasovou nebo náboženskou nesnášenlivostí. Aly překvapivě a kontroverzně ukazuje, že kořeny holokaustu jsou hluboce spjaty s německým úsilím o větší sociální rovnost. Autorovo líčení této osudové společenské dynamiky otevírá nový úhel pohledu na největší zločin v dějinách a jistě vyvolá vášnivou debatu na řadu let.

Historická studie. Analýza fungování sociálního systému nacionálně socialistického režimu v Německu v letech 1933-1945. Finanční a daňová politika Třetí říše. V myšlenkově závažné knize klade autor zásadní otázku: jak mohl nacionální socialismus získat mezi Němci tak vysokou míru podpory? Odpovědi hledá Aly v oblasti líbivé sociální politiky nacistického režimu. Výdaje v sociální oblasti, stejně tak jako ohromné částky na zbrojení a na udržení finanční stability Říše nešly na vrub německých daňových poplatníků, ale byly kryty z jiných, vnějších zdrojů: byly získávány vyvlastňováním židovského majetku, loupeživým způsobem vedení války, devastací a vykořisťováním okupovaných území. Publikace se zabývá zásahy státu do sociální sféry, věnuje se rovněž daňové a finanční politice nacistického Německa v letech 1933-1945 a osvětluje strategie nacistů, pomocí kterých získávali finance z arizace majetku na okupovaných územích. Jak píše autor, holocaust je třeba analyzovat jako nejdůslednější masovou loupežnou vraždu moderní historie.

Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the set of demographers, economists, geographers and planners in the period between the disorderly excesses of the November 1938 pogrom and the fully effective operation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz in summer 1942. The authors, both journalists and historians, argue that this group of intellectuals, often combining academic, civil service and Party functions made an indispensable contribution to the planning and execution of the Final Solution. More than that, in the economic and demographic rationale of these experts, the Final Solution was only one element in a far reaching programme of selfsufficiency which privileged the German Aryan population.

"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"-- Provided by publisher

"From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state officials, police, and civilians who eagerly supported the genocide. If we are to fully understand how and why the Holocaust happened, Götz Aly argues in this groundbreaking study, we must examine its prehistory throughout Europe. We must look at countries as far-flung as Romania and France, Russia and Greece, where, decades before the Nazis came to power, a deadly combination of envy, competition, nationalism, and social upheaval fueled a surge of anti-Semitism, creating the preconditions for the deportations and murder to come. In the late nineteenth century, new opportunities for education and social advancement were opening up, and Jewish minorities took particular advantage of them, leading to widespread resentment. At the same time, newly created nation-states, especially in the east, were striving for ethnic homogeneity and national renewal, goals which they saw as inextricably linked. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unpublished sources, Aly traces the sequence of events that made persecution of Jews an increasingly acceptable European practice. Ultimately, the German architects of genocide found support for the Final Solution in nearly all the countries they occupied or were allied with. Without diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators, Aly documents the involvement of all of Europe in the destruction of the Jews, once again deepening our understanding of this most tormented history"-- Provided by publisher

"The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state officials, police, and civilians who eagerly supported the genocide. If we are to fully understand how and why the Holocaust happened, Götz Aly argues in this groundbreaking study, we must examine its prehistory throughout Europe. We must look at countries as far-flung as Romania and France, Russia and Greece, where, decades before the Nazis came to power, a deadly combination of envy, competition, nationalism, and social upheaval fueled a surge of anti-Semitism, creating the preconditions for the deportations and murder to come. In the late nineteenth century, new opportunities for education and social advancement were opening up, and Jewish minorities took particular advantage of them, leading to widespread resentment. At the same time, newly created nation-states, especially in the east, were striving for ethnic homogeneity and national renewal, goals which they saw as inextricably linked. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unpublished sources, Aly traces the sequence of events that made persecution of Jews an increasingly acceptable European practice. Ultimately, the German architects of genocide found support for the Final Solution in nearly all the countries they occupied or were allied with. Without diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators, Aly documents the involvement of all of Europe in the destruction of the Jews, once again deepening our understanding of this most tormented history"-- Provided by publisher

"A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism was--to a previously overlooked extent--driven in large part by material concerns, not racist ideology or religious animosity. As Germany made its way through the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, the difficulties of the lethargic, economically backward German majority stood in marked contrast to the social and economic success of the agile Jewish minority. This success aroused envy and fear among the Gentile population, creating fertile ground for murderous Nazi politics. Surprisingly, and controversially, Aly shows that the roots of the Holocaust are deeply intertwined with German efforts to create greater social equality. Redistributing wealth from the well-off to the less fortunate was in many respects a laudable goal, particularly at a time when many lived in poverty. But as the notion of material equality took over the public imagination, the skilled, well-educated Jewish population came to be seen as having more than its fair share. Aly's account of this fatal social dynamic opens up a new vantage point on the greatest crime in history and is sure to prompt heated debate for years to come"-- Provided by publisher

A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Sixty years after her death, when Götz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and restore this child to history. In what is as much a detective story as a historical reconstruction, Aly, praised for his "formidable research skills" (Christopher Browning), traces the Samuel family's agonizing decline from shop owners to forced laborers to deportees. Against all odds, Aly manages to recover expropriation records, family photographs, and even a trace of Marion's voice in the premonition she confided to a school friend: "People disappear," she said, "into the tunnel." A gripping account of a family caught in the tightening grip of persecution, Into the Tunnel is a powerful reminder that the millions of Nazi victims were also, each one, an individual life.

A book with dozens of photos and documents recounts the history of the first branded condoms in Germany and the culture that allowed them to thrive, the machinations by which the Nazis robbed Jews of their businesses, and the tragedy of a man whose love for his country was betrayed by its government and his fellow citizens.