'Gotz Aly is one of the most able and exciting young German historians working on the Third Reich' - Niall Ferguson Revelatory subject matter - unarguably refutes the 'functionalist' thesis that Auschwitz was not planned and lays down concrete proof that there were longstanding, carefully thought-out and rationalised projects for the Holocaust.
Gotz Aly is a freelance journalist and historian living in Berlin. He is also the author of Final Solution (Arnold, 1999) and co-author of Cleansing the Fatherland : Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene (John Hopkins University Press, 1994). Susanne Heim is Deputy Research Director of the Max Plank Society in Berlin. She has edited various political journals and is currently preparing a major study on Jewish emigration and refugee policy in the 1930s. Susanne Heim is Deputy Research Director of the Max Plank Society in Berlin. She has edited various political journals and is currently preparing a major study on Jewish emigration and refugee policy in the 1930s.
The front page of the OBSERVER books section carried this large review full of praise. "How, 60 years on, can there be anything fresh left to think, write or research about the Holocaust... Yet this new work, from a couple of young German historians, is still a revelation." "Gotz and Heim have written a fascinating and important book, illuminating an aspect of the grim history of the Third Reich with care and excoriating honesty." AC GRAYLING, FINANCIAL TIMES "Architects of Annihilation is a disturbing read. Authoritatively well-researched , it blows away many of the popular myths which surround Hitler's hand in genocide." THE HERALD "This is an important, honest, unsensational, thought-provoking book, the more important because the authors are German. We should be grateful for - and respectful of - that" DAILY TELEGRAPH We have set an
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