Vordenker der Vernichtung. Auschwitz und die deutschen Pläne für eine neue europäische Ordnung

by Götz Aly, Susanne Heim

German

Genres: History, Holocaust, Nonfiction, War, World War II, Germany, Sociology

539 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Götz Haydar Aly is a German journalist, historian and social scientist.

After attending the German School of Journalists, Aly studied history and political science in Berlin. As a journalist, he worked for the taz, the Berliner Zeitung and the FAZ. Presently, from 2004 to 2005, he is a visiting professor for interdisciplinary Holocaust research at the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt am Main.

Reviews

[InVisi]

I've only started reading this book and so much of what happened during the start of the "final solution" is happening to us now and so may people are not paying attention to it.
Much like the system that tracked the Jews, the real ID is being pushed in legislation to track every one, including American citizens.
People and groups are being singled out as “terrorists” or a “threat” and regular, law-abiding American citizens are being subjected to “sobriety” checkpoints, naked body-scanners in airports, (of which there are plans to have mobile body scanners on the streets to randomly “search” people). Americans are subjected to humiliating body searches and body scanners to enter courts, air terminals and soon buses, trains, shopping malls and football games. With all this in mind, this book is disturbing to say the least and is teaching me so much about our current system and our current governmental regime - chilling....

[Jerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Nazi madness could not have gained the hold it did, caused the destruction it did without the mundane bureaucracy which made it function, which implemented the madness. Imagine, rising every workday, enjoying breakfast with the children, departing for the office where you spend the work day planning for the enslavement and eventual starvation of masses of people whom you didn't know and then returning home to supper with the kids and wife in the evening. Insanity made banal by the bureaucrats revealed by Götz Aly and Susanne Heim.

[Sigrid_02 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sehr interessante und detaillierte Betrachtung der wirtschaftlichen und sozialpolitischen Hintergründe, die zur Umsetzung der Vernichtung der Juden und anderer Minderheiten führten. Erschreckend ist besonders die Rationalität und Emotionslosigkeit, mit der über die Umsiedlung und Ermordung ganzer Bevölkerungsgruppen im nationalsozialistischen Jargon gesprochen wird. Bisher wenig erforscht sind auch die Beiträge der damaligen akademischen Elite, die diese in Hintergründen und Analysen zur Entwicklung und Umsetzung der Bevölkerungspolitik beisteuerte. Den Autoren gelingt es hier hervorragend, vor allem auch die Nachkriegskontinuitäten in diesen Kreisen zu beleuchten, die den Leser an zahlreichen Stellen zu einem empörten Kopfschütteln veranlassen. An einigen Stellen wirken die Ausführungen etwas konstruiert und scheinen in der zeitlichen Einordnung vor- und zurückzuspringen, das Fazit stellt die Überlegungen schließlich aber in einen logischen Zusammenhang.

[Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book, but somewhat dry.

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used this book for a college course on the Holocaust. As a history major (and someone with a weird, lifelong fascination with the Holocaust), this has become my go-to reference book. It is especially useful in that it almost entirely sidelines Hitler in favor of exploring the pre-existing policies, social and cultural anti-Semitism, and other political players that built the Holocaust. Highly highly recommend for anyone interested in or needing a source for research on the Holocaust.

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

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