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“... 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. Aly makes compelling arguments to back up this unlikely thesis ...”

“... fork-lifted into the palace before the walls could be closed up, had, according to the historian Götz Aly, been surrendered to German colonisers who had rampaged across Papua New Guinea’s New Bismarck Archipelago.A prominent adviser to the Humboldt Forum, the French art historian Bénédicte Savoy, had already resigned in protest in 2017. She claimed ...”

“... was a part of ‘starvation policy’: a ‘means’ of managing broader economic interests. Götz Aly and Susanne Heim have been struck by concerns about ‘overpopulation’ in Eastern Europe voiced in the correspondence of Nazi technocrats. For them, the Holocaust was a part of larger plans to modernise a backward region where too many people ...”