Hitler's Willing Executioners; Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Reprint. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x, 619, [9] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born June 30, 1959) is an American author and former associate professor of political science and social studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen reached international attention and broad criticism as the author of two controversial books about the Holocaust: Hitler's Willing Executioners and A Moral Reckoning. He is also the author of Worse Than War, which examines the phenomenon of genocide, and The Devil That Never Dies, in which he traces his view of a worldwide rise in virulent anti-Semitism. A work of the utmost importance--as authoritative as it is explosive--Hitler's Willing Executioners will fundamentally change our perception of the Holocaust and of Germany in the Nazi period. Goldhagen reaches conclusions that are both uncompromising and savage, rejecting as inadequate the conventional historical explanations for how an entire country could allow the Holocaust to happen, and gives the first detailed, broad-ranging account of the actual killers of the Jews. When Hitler ordered the annihilation of the Jews, why did people execute the order? Goldhagen wanted to investigate who the German men and women who killed the Jews were and their reasons for killing. [3] Academic and literary career[edit]As a graduate student, Goldhagen undertook research in the German archives. The thesis of Hitler s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust proposes that, during the Holocaust, many killers were ordinary Germans, who killed for having been raised in a profoundly antisemitic culture, and thus were acculturated "ready and willing" to execute the Nazi government's genocidal plans. Condition: Very good / very good.
Keywords: Jews, Antisemitism, Christopher Browning, Deportations, Flughafenlager, Police Battalion, Wilhelm Trapp, Holocaust, Genocide, Death Camps, Death Marches, Eliminationist Program, Police Battalion 101
ISBN: 9780679446958
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