Architects of Annihilation - Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

A groundbreaking study of the numerous academics and technocrats without whom Hitler''s crude anti-Semitism could never have been translated into a systematic policy of genocide. ARCHITECTS OF ANNIHILATION follows the activities of the 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 self-sufficiency which privileged the German Aryan population.

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• Authors: Al, Gotz Aly, Gotz Heim Aly, Aly Gotz, Aly Gotz, Heim, Susanne Heim, Heim Susanne
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.12.2003
• EAN: 9781842126707
• ISBN: 978-1-84212-670-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 201 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > General, reference works; HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Jewish, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater