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Hitler's Willing Executioners

Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage)

By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

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| Paperback | 9780679772682

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This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive eviContinue

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion.



"Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books


"The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer

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  • A different perspective

    Definitely a must-read if you have ever wondered "why". This helps explain the other side, and how they were lead to believe what they did and felt.

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    Karin Sloan said on Jul 29, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • A reference boom

    Thé author has done an outstanding job! You never wear the same look on the Second World War, more specifically on the Shoah. The book explains why and how people thought and acted as they did, not how we should judge them.

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    Romainp99 said on Feb 14, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 656 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0679772685
  • ISBN-13: 9780679772682
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jan 28, 1997
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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