Hitler's Willing Executioners

Zusatztext ** 'There is enough material here to disturb the human race to the end of time. Informationen zum Autor Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University and an Associate of Harvard's Minda de Gunzberg Centre for European Studies. He was awarded Germany's Democracy Prize for HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS. Klappentext Paperback edition of this fresh and controversial look at the Holocaust. Goldhagen examines German society and its inherent anti-semitism and uses material unexplored by previous historians. Testimony from actual perpetrators shows that, far from being coerced, they killed willingly and with enthusiasm. Ordinary Germans believed that the extermination of the Jews was necessary and just. "Shocking and well-documented... I hope this book will be widely read." A.N. Wilson, "Evening Standard". B/w illus. 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