It Never Occurred to Them

John Connelly

  • BuyHitler’s Beneficiaries: How the Nazis Bought the German People by Götz Aly, translated by Jefferson Chase
    Verso, 448 pp, £19.99, August 2007, ISBN 978 1 84467 217 2

What was the point of Nazism? Götz Aly, Germany’s most influential popular historian, has a new answer: it was for the good of the German people. In his view, the National Socialists were as much socialist as they were national, and they genuinely sought to better the lives of ordinary Germans.

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