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  title info:
    title: Why the Germans? why the Jews?
    sub title: envy, race hatred, and the prehistory of the Holocaust
  title info:
    title: Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden? English
  name:
    name part: Aly, Götz
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Chase, Jefferson S.
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ger
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 290 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism was--to a previously overlooked extent--driven in large part by material concerns, not racist ideology or religious animosity. As Germany made its way through the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, the difficulties of the lethargic, economically backward German majority stood in marked contrast to the social and economic success of the agile Jewish minority. This success aroused envy and fear among the Gentile population, creating fertile ground for murderous Nazi politics.Surprisingly, and controversially, Aly shows that the roots of the Holocaust are deeply intertwined with German efforts to create greater social equality. Redistributing wealth from the well-off to the less fortunate was in many respects a laudable goal, particularly at a time when many lived in poverty. But as the notion of material equality took over the public imagination, the skilled, well-educated Jewish population came to be seen as having more than its fair share. Aly's account of this fatal social dynamic opens up a new vantage point on the greatest crime in history and is sure to prompt heated debate for years to come"--
  table of contents: The question of questions -- Jewish emancipation -- The anxiety of German nationalism -- Anti-Semitism as a political force -- The mainstream's dangerous indifference -- War, defeat, and Jew hatred -- Weak masses, strong race -- The National Socialist People's Party -- A story with no end.
  note: Götz Aly ; translated by Jefferson Chase.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
  note: Translation of: Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden?
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Cultural assimilation
    geographic: Germany
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Cultural assimilation
    geographic: Germany
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Identity
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Identity
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Ethnic relations
  classification: DS134.25 .A5913 2014
  classification: 943/.004924
  classification: HIS043000 HIS014000 HIS022000
  identifier: 9780805097009 (hardback)
  identifier: 0805097007 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780805097047 (electronic book)
  identifier: 080509704X (electronic book)
  identifier: 2013042037
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131028
    record change date: 20151206100748.0
    record identifier: in00003455116
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng