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Book SynopsisExamines the role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, this title shows how the unthinkable technocratic "solutions" to Germany's wartime problems were not only thought but spelled out and implemented.
Trade Review"It is illuminating to read Aly and Heim]s work in conjunction with contemporary history of technology and business... [I]t is a great service that Princeton University Press has made Aly and Heim's work readily accessible to American historians of business and technology."--Michael Allen, Technology and Culture
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. 'Entjudung': the Systematic Removal of Jews from Germany's Social and Economic Life 10 2. Looking to the East 39 3. Demographic Economics: the Emergence of a New Science 58 4. War and Resettlement 73 5. Living Life as a Member of the Master Race 115 6. The Government General: an Exercise in German Redevelopment 130 7. 1940: Plans, Experiments and Lessons Learned 160 8. Interim Reflection 174 9. The Economic Exploitation of the Ghettos 186 10. 'Population Surpluses' in the European Trading Area 215 11. The War against the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of 'X Millions' of People 234 12. The 'General Plan for the East' 253 13. Conclusions 283 Notes 296 Bibliography 357
