Why The Germans? Why The Jews? by Götz Aly

An analysis of the social, political and economic roots of German antisemitism and the processes that enabled the persecution and murder of Jews, arguing that broad segments of society, state institutions and political culture—driven by nationalism, prejudice, material interests and bureaucratic routine—played active roles in escalating exclusion and violence, and examining both perpetrators’ rationales and victims’ experiences to explain how mass murder became possible.

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