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EUROPE AGAINST THE JEWS 1880-1945 - GÖTZ ALY KA...

From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust  Europe Against the Jews  1880-1945 is the
first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. 
The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans  but it would not have been possible without the
assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state officials  police  and civilians
who eagerly supported the genocide. If we are to fully understand how and why the Holocaust
happened  Götz Aly argues in this groundbreaking study  we must examine its prehistory
throughout Europe. We must look at countries as far-flung as Romania and France  Russia and
Greece  where  decades before the Nazis came to power  a deadly combination of envy 
competition  nationalism  and social upheaval fueled a surge of anti-Semitism  creating the
preconditions for the deportations and murder to come.  In the late nineteenth century  new
opportunities for education and social advancement were opening up  and Jewish minorities took
particular advantage of them  leading to widespread resentment. At the same time  newly created
nation-states  especially in the east  were striving for ethnic homogeneity and national
renewal  goals which they saw as inextricably linked. Drawing upon a wide range of previously
unpublished sources  Aly traces the sequence of events that made persecution of Jews an
increasingly acceptable European practice. Ultimately  the German architects of genocide found
support for the Final Solution in nearly all the countries they occupied or were allied with. 
Without diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators  Aly documents the involvement of all of
Europe in the destruction of the Jews  once again deepening our understanding of this most
tormented history.

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