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Architects of Annihilation : Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

By Götz Aly

Book information

Publisher
Limited, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Year
2003
ISBN
0297842781, 9780297842781
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16928841 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
384\382
Time added
2024-10-23 20:50:08

Description

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 self-sufficiency which privileged the German Aryan population.

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