{"product_id":"hitlers-beneficiaries-plunder-racial-war-and-the-nazi-welfare-state-9780805087260","title":"Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"provocative\" account of great \"intellectual significance,\" illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich--and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, historian G?tz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer 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 generous social programs--Hitler literally \"bought\" his people's consent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on secret files and financial records, Aly shows that while Jews and citizens of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed an improved standard of living. Buoyed by millions of packages soldiers sent from the front, Germans also benefited from the systematic plunder of Jewish possessions. Any qualms were swept away by waves of tax breaks and government handouts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHitler's Beneficiaries \u003c\/i\u003ehas been hailed as \"startling\" by Richard Evans, and as \"fascinating and important\" by Christopher Browning. Above all, as Omer Bartov testifies, this remarkable book \"irreversibly transforms our understanding of the Third Reich.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, \u003cb\u003eGötz Aly \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eArchitects of Annihilation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eInto the Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books. Winner of Germany's most prestigious history award, Aly has also been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and currently teaches at the Free University of Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556483666194,"sku":"9780805087260","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c17afb3b-cdbe-4f38-9544-5d9b79abef71.jpg?v=1731754771","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hitlers-beneficiaries-plunder-racial-war-and-the-nazi-welfare-state-9780805087260","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}