
Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the set of demographers, economists, geographers and planners in the period between the disorderly excesses of the November 1938 pogrom and the fully effective operation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz in summer 1942. The authors, both journalists and historians, argue that this group of intellectuals, often combining academic, civil service and Party functions made an indispensable contribution to the planning and execution of the Final Solution. More than that, in the economic and demographic rationale of these experts, the Final Solution was only one element in a far reaching programme of selfsufficiency which privileged the German Aryan population.
Page Count:
378
Publication Date:
2002-01-01
ISBN-10:
0297842781
ISBN-13:
9780297842781
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