Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
There is something almost recklessly ambitious in a Holocaust-related work entitled Why the Germans? Why the Jews? After all, decades of reflection and scholarship have, if anything, rendered the issues and the answers ever more complex. The maverick historian Götz Aly, however, confidently contends...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 365-368 |
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| Summary: | There is something almost recklessly ambitious in a Holocaust-related work entitled Why the Germans? Why the Jews? After all, decades of reflection and scholarship have, if anything, rendered the issues and the answers ever more complex. The maverick historian Götz Aly, however, confidently contends that the answer is rather simple: sheer envy at rapid Jewish economic and cultural success and perceived domination (as opposed to Christian immobility) formed the basis of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German antisemitism. That, however, is not all. Although the sub-title refers to “the pre-history of the Holocaust,” Aly in effect extends the thesis to the Shoah itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw028 |