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Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
In this groundbreaking study, renowned German historian Götz Aly exposes a brutal truth about the Third Reich: the Nazi regime’s “people’s community” was built on systematic robbery. Aly argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans materially benefited from the regime’s crimes during World War II. The Nazi government transformed the state into an unprecedented looting machine, using confiscated property and wealth from across Europe to fund generous social benefits, tax breaks, and stable supplies for the German population.
The book details how the proceeds from the sale of Jewish assets throughout Europe flowed directly into Germany’s war treasury. Millions of Europeans—Jews, Poles, and others—paid the price for this prosperity through the expropriation of their homes, businesses, and livelihoods. For decades, this uncomfortable aspect of Nazi history was downplayed or ignored. Aly’s work finally and unflinchingly depicts the material advantages that the German “national community” derived from the Nazis’ war, racial policies, and the Holocaust. This is a stark, meticulously researched account of greed, complicity, and the economic engine of genocide.