Description
Book SynopsisMaking extensive use of Russian, German, and Polish archives, This book has provides the most exact and detailed reconstruction of the 'Final Solution' yet achieved. Aly illustrates the lunacy of Nazi race policy, and the variety of agencies that went into the gradual shaping of a policy of all-out genocide.
Trade Review'This outstanding work - based on detailed research, often into hitherto untapped sources - is the best analysis to date of the complex developments between 1939 and 1941 that produced the Nazi genocide against the Jews.' Ian Kershaw 'Much of the documentation, insight, and argument of the book are both new and important... a fine book from which no one seriously interested in the subject can fail to profit.' Neue Politische Literatur 'Aly is one of the most original, prolific, and controversial figures in this new cohort of historians... his arguments cannot be dismissed easily, since he is an indefatigable researcher as well as a powerful writer... his conclusions are always challenging and provocative... Final Solution is an important addition to the literature on the origins of the Holocaust, and it should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the context within which the genocide of the Jews occurred.' The New Republic 'Aly is among the most original and controversial German writers on the Holocaust.' Choice
Table of ContentsPolicy toward the Jews, war and resettlement; "making room" for ethnic Germans, chronology - September 1939-April 1940; "Himmler is shifting population.."; "the Madagascar plan", chronology - May-September 1940; "home to the Reich", and into a camp; a major plan fails, chronology - 15 November 1940-15 March 1941; ghetto, work, "the war to the East"; war of extermination and Lebensraum, chronology - 1 May-31 July 1941; disappointed hopes of victory; "the Jews have to go"; elements of the decision to carry out the Holocaust; the murderers' postscripts.
