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Title	:	Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Author	:	Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 634 pages
Published	:	January 28th 1997 by Vintage (first published 1996)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. World War II. Holocaust. War. Cultural. Germany

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Paperback | Pages: 634 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 4262 Users | 227 Reviews

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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 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 material, 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 Executioners 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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Original Title:	Hitler's Willing Executioners. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
ISBN:	0679772685 (ISBN13: 9780679772682)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1996)

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Ratings: 3.68 From 4262 Users | 227 Reviews

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I didn't manage to finish this. I found it very repetitive and overly haranguing. Essentially, this book has one central premise. That Germany as a nation was murderously antisemtic long before the Nazis came to power, dating back in fact to Martin Luther's hate-spewing speeches and beyond and that it's erroneous to single out the Nazis instead of making culpable the entire German population as being responsible for the Holocaust. That its erroneous to believe the Nazis were capable of

A book that won't leave you. Goldhagen's theory has created a firestorm when it came out, but he's extremely convincing and his view of Nazi Germany is as sad as it's terrifying. It will make you think, it will make you cringe, it will make you wonder - not only about history, but also about yourself, about what you'd have done, about you'd do if similar circumstances were to happen again. It's one of those books.

Well, there is a lot to say about this book, but I won't go in too deep-- I think you can find similar thoughts to mine on plenty of other reviews of this book. Essentially, Goldhagen argues that the Holocaust was not a result of silly things like "psychology" or "human nature." Instead, perpetrators of the Holocaust were not necessarily "ordinary men" but "ordinary Germans," who were evidently different than most of the human race during the Third Reich. This difference is rooted in the

Everyone knows its hard to get published. There are a lot of authors and a lot of books, and its difficult to stand out among the sea of words. Its a bit easier for memoirists, who can rely on shabby childhoods and drug addictions. For a historian, its a bit trickier. One tactic is the micro-history: find yourself a historical footnote, and then elevate it to the turning point of mankind. For example, an ambitious historian could write about the hula-hoop, and how it brought about détente

Unreliable sources and much speculation in this obviously vengeful and hateful book. This author simply hates all Germans and claims they were all just like Hitler. Avoid this book, in my opinion.

Theres been so much written about this controversial book that Im sure I dont have too many details to add that havent been covered before so instead Ill gather some thoughts that have been mulling around in my mind in the week since I finished reading it. First, I find this an important book in that it reminds us that this period in history and the actions of the Germans - shouldnt be blithely discounted with the standard it happened because of the economic climate of the time. As the mother

Terrible, terrible, terrible.Provocative theory, but one which falls apart throughout his making the argument.