An account of the economic workings of the Third Reich, and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state. Challenges narratives that define support for Hitler in purely ideological terms.

One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Gotz Aly is the author of Architects of Annihilation, among other books. Winner of Germany’s prestigious history award, the Heinrich Mann prize, Aly has been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and currently teaches at the University of Frankfurt. He lives in Berlin.