Hitler's Willing Executioners

Zusatztext ** 'There is enough material here to disturb the human race to the end of time. Informationen zum Autor Daniel Goldhagen is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His doctoral disseration, which is the basis for this book, won the Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of comparative politics. Klappentext Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945. The author marshals fresh, primary evidence - including extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators - to show that the killers were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to act as they did (they knew they could refuse without retribution) yet they killed willingly and zealously. Zusammenfassung An exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945. The author aims to show that the perpetrators of the Holocaust were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to kill, but did so willingly and zealously.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Goldhagen, Daniel J. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.1997
• EAN: 9780349107868
• ISBN: 978-0-349-10786-8
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 196 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Military / General, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater