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Why the Germans? why the Jews? : envy, race hatred, and the prehistory of the Holocaust /

"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 maveric...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aly, Götz, 1947- (Author)
Other Authors: Chase, Jefferson S. (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of: Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden?
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Jews > Cultural assimilation > Germany > 19th century.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > Germany > 20th century.
Jews > Germany > Identity > 19th century.
Jews > Germany > Identity > 20th century.
Jews > Germany > Social conditions > 19th century.
Jews > Germany > Social conditions > 20th century.
Antisemitism > Germany > History > 19th century.
Antisemitism > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germany > Ethnic relations.
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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.