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In this groundbreaking book, distinguished historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Adolf Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans for his program of mass murder and military conquest? The answer Aly provides is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale, and by channeling the proceeds into a succession of generous social programs, Hitler literally bought the consent of the German people. Drawing on secret Nazi files and unexamined financial records, Aly shows that while Jews and citizens of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed a marked improvement in their standard of living. He documents the many millions of packages soldiers sent from the front stuffed with valuables and provisions; the systematic plunder of conquered territory for raw materials, industrial goods, and food supplies; and the disappearance of Jewish property and fortunes into German homes and pockets across the Reich. Whatever moral qualms Germans may have felt toward Nazi policies were swept away by waves of government handouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation
Aly depicts a Nazi leadership addicted to the spoils of invasion, annexation and dispossession. He shows that the pace and timing of Nazi conquests-from the Anschluss of Austria to the annexation of the Czech Sudetenland-were dictated by the rapidly escalating financial needs of the German war machine. Time and again, warnings of an imminent financial collapse spurred the Third Reich to ever more desperate and brazen acts of thievery and destruction. A gripping work of scrupulous erudition and great historical importance, Hitleralʾs Beneficiaries explains the inexplicable, making a radically new contribution to our understanding of Nazi aggression, the Holocaust and the complicity of a people. From the book jacket
Includes information on anti-Semitism, atonement payments, Banque de France Bank of Greece, Belgium, consumer goods, currency, debt and credit, Eastern Europe (Front), forced labor, France, Joseph Goebbels, gold, Hermann Goring, government bonds, Greece, Adolf Hitler, Holland (Netherlands), responsibility for Holocaust, Hungary, inflation, Italy, Jewish assets, Jews, deportation of Jews, National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party), occupation costs, Poland, Reich Credit Banks (Rreichkreditkasse), Reichsbank, Romania, Schwerin von Krosigk (Count Lutz), social welfare system, Soldiers, Soviet Union, taxes and tax policy, Vichy France, Wehrmacht, working classes, World War I, World War II, etc
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History, Jewish property, World War, 1939-1945, Aryanization, Confiscations and contributions, National socialism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Politics and government, Racism, Confiscations and contribution, Confiscations and pillage, Economics, Confiscations, Destruction and pillage, Philosophy, Economic policy, Economic aspects of World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, destruction and pillage, World war, 1939-1945, economic aspects, Germany, economic policy, Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945, World war, 1939-1945, europe, Holocaust, 1933-1945, OUR Brockhaus selection, History of Germany, Studies, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)People
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20th century, 1933-1945Showing 5 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
January 8, 2008, Holt Paperbacks
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Hitler's beneficiaries: how the Nazis bought the German people
2007, Verso
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
January 9, 2007, Metropolitan Books
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Hitler's beneficiaries: plunder, racial war, and the Nazi welfare state
2007, Metropolitan
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Hitlers Volksstaat: Raub, Rassenkrieg und nationaler Sozialismus
2005, S. Fischer
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