Architects of Annihilation

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Architects of Annihilation is written by Gotz Aly and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474602746 (ISBN 10) and 9781474602747 (ISBN 13).

Architects of Annihilation follows the activities of the 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 self-sufficiency which privileged the German Aryan population.