HITLER'S BENEFICIARIES by Gotz Aly
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It is one of the most perplexing questions the world has faced: Why did so many ordinary Germans support the persecution of Jews and the Nazi state? Was it fanatical racism? Brainwashing? Or could it possibly have been as selfishly barbaric as choosing profit over humanity?
Award-winning author Gotz Aly, one of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, believes it was indeed money that blinded the German people from their duty as human beings. In this stunning work, he asserts that Hitler engaged in a campaign of theft on an extreme level, channeling the proceeds into generous social programs and literally “buying” his people’s consent and loyalty.
Aly draws on secret files and financial records. He shows that while Jews and citizens of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, and enslavement, most Germans enjoyed an improved standard of living, even despite the war, benefiting from the systematic plunder of conquered territory and Jewish possessions. He purports that all qualms from the German people were swept away by government handouts, tax breaks and preferential legislation, leaving little chance for a domestic movement that may have halted Nazi crimes.
Already a bestseller in Germany, Hitler’s Beneficiaries is “one of those rare works that sharpens our perspective on the darkest period in German history.”—Financial Times (Germany)
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