"Final Solution"; Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews

by Götz Aly; Belinda Cooper; Allison Brown

• ISBN13: 9780340677582
• ISBN10: 0340677589
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-18
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

How did it come about that a modern European state in the middle of the twentieth century planned and carried out the industrially organized mass murder of six million Jews, male and female, adults and children? Making extensive use of Russian, German, and Polish archives, Aly has provided the most exact and detailed reconstruction of the "Final Solution" yet achieved. As well as looking at the ideological imperative in the Nazi state to "solve the Jewish question" and at Hitler's own role, Aly investigates the actions of those running the Reich Security Headquarters in Berlin and of those numerous lesser figures on the ground who were in the eye of the storm, grappling with the planning failures inherent in Nazi resettlement plans and experiencing mounting difficulties in trying to be rid of "their" Jews. Aly illustrates, through the evidence he builds into an overall mosaic, the lunacy of Nazi race policy, and the variety of agencies that went into the gradual shaping of a policy of all-out genocide.

Author Biography

Gotz 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, of Vordenker der Vernichtung: Auschwitz und die Plane fur eine neue europaische Orndung (1991).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Policy towards the Jews, war, and resettlement	p. 14
'Making room' for ethnic Germans, chronology: September 1939-April 1940	p. 33
'Himmler is shifting populations...not always successfully'	p. 59
The Madagascar Plan', chronology: May-September 1940	p. 88
'Home to the Reich' - and into a camp	p. 105
A major plan fails, chronology: 15 November 1940-15 March 1941	p. 134
Ghetto, work, 'The Move Eastward'	p. 149
War of extermination and Lebensraum, chronology: 1 May-31 July 1941	p. 185
Frustrated expectations of victory	p. 195
'The Jews have got to go'	p. 214
Elements of the decision to carry out the Holocaust	p. 243
The murderers' postscripts	p. 264
Glossary	p. 273
List of abbreviations	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 281
Index of names	p. 297
Index of places	p. 303
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