Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

Gray paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Mild binding lean, otherwise about as issued. Dust jacket shows slight shelf wear, essentially as issued, now in mylar. BOMC ed.

From Publisher:

In this ground breaking book, historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: 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 programs - Hitler literally bought his people's consent. Drawing on secret files and financial records, Aly shows that while Jews and citizens of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed an improved standard of living. Buoyed by 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 important, Hitler's Beneficiaries makes a radically new contribution to our understanding of Nazi aggression, the Holocaust, and the complicity of a people.

Product Info

ISBN: 0805079262

ISBN-13: 9780805079265

Publisher: Metropolitan Books-Henry Holt and Co.

Year: 2007

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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