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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 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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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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Published by Vintage Books, 1997
ISBN 0679772685, 9780679772682
634 pages
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Reconceiving Central Aspects of the Holocaust
3
Holocaust , antisemitism , Jews
UNDERSTANDING GERMAN ANTISEMITISM
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The Evolution of Eliminationist Antisemitism
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Jews , racial antisemitism , Jewish emancipation
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Wow - very intense book, I only read maybe 6 pages before crying then having nightmares. This book along with "Ordinary Men" is the focus of a paper as well as a quiz for class (I got 100%). the ... more » two authors battle back and forth in their respective afterwards.In a nutshell Browning feels that Germans killed because of peer pressure and felt pretty bad about it later. Goldburg feels that Germans killed because they wanted to, were given permission and didn't feel bad about it later. Both authors agreed that antisemitism played a part. Goldburg feels that it played a much bigger role than Browning does. both men also agreed that ordinary men and women did kill with little encouragement. The debate is healthy, an still waging in the Holocaust field of study and amongst Germans. A good argument can be made for each book. 7-2006 « less
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... the assumptions and commonly accepted myths concerning the Holocaust. Goldhagen (Government and Social Studies/Harvard) offers irrefutable proof that will force us to reconsider our previous ... more » understanding of the Nazis' genocidal project. Traditional explorations tended to accept at face value the usual defenses offered by the Germans: Either they did not know of the genocide or they were compelled to participate against their will. In this exhaustively documented and richly researched work, Goldhagen documents conclusively that the people who actively participated in the extermination program were indeed ""ordinary Germans,"" neither fanatical Nazis nor members of the dreaded SS. By carefully studying the personnel of the death camps and police battalions, the author reveals that they were not forced to participate, nor were they brainwashed by the Nazi regime. One of the book's many virtues is that it insists on placing antisemitism in a larger context; it permeated all segments of German society, including the proletariat, the professions, and the churches. Goldhagen thus offers a new conceptual framework for thinking about the Holocaust. Its documentation will make refutation nearly impossible. Further strengthening bis case, Goldhagen focuses on hitherto neglected aspects of the Holocaust: the police battalions and the death marches that occurred toward the end of the war. Both aspects support his thesis that the genocidal plans of the Nazis found an eagerly receptive audience in Germany. By comparing Nazi policies toward Jews, Slavs, and the infirm (the Euthanasia Program was denounced and resisted by the Germans), we can more clearly see and understand the enormity of the crime and the complicity of ""ordinary Germans."" A profoundly revolutionary work that demands a reexamination of the central moral problem of the 20th century. « less
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Hitler's Willing Executioners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996) is a history book by Daniel Goldhagen which posits ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler's_Willing_Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary ...190. Modern Judaism. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans. and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). 622 pp. ...mj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/2/190.pdf
Vintage Catalog Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah ...... that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. ...www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679772685&view=rg
KONRAD KWIETKONRAD KWIET. “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” and “Ordinary Germans”. Some Comments on Goldhagen’s Ideas. 1. Much has been said about Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...web.ceu.hu/jewishstudies/pdf/01_kwiet.pdf
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PEP Web - Hitler's Willing Executioners(1998). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 46:650-653. Hitler's Willing Executioners. Barbara Stimmel Author Information ...www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=APA.046.0650A
JSTOR: Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the ...Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 619. Cloth $30.00. The dustjacket of Daniel Jonah ...links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0149-7952(199610)19%3A3%3C578%3AHWEOGA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
Aspects of the Goldhagen DebateAspects of the Goldhagen Debate. Central to this debate is Daniel Goldhagen’s work Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary ...www.aihgs.com/images/Goldhagen.pdf
An Examination of: Hitler's Willing Executioners; Ordinary Germans ...However, in Daniel Goldhagen's 1995 book Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, the author proposes that there is something ...www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/bat101/TietjenGoldhagenRev.htm
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - 1996 - 622 pages
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - History - 1996 - 622 pages
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - History - 1997 - 634 pages
"--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about theHolocaust.
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References from scholarly works
Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration ofInhumanitiesAlbert Bandura - 1999 - Personality and Social Psychology Review
Toward a Theory of Teacher CommunityPamela Grossman, Samuel Wineburg And, Stephen Woolworth - 2001 - The Teachers College Record
The Political Economy of Hatred*Edward L Glaeser - 2005 - Quarterly Journal of Economics
Selective Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral AgencyALBERT BANDURA - 2002 - Journal of Moral Education
Collective Memory and Cultural Constraint: Holocaust Myth and ...Jeffrey K Olick, Daniel Levy - 1997 - American Sociological Review
Key terms
Jozefow, Einsatzgruppen, genocidal, Holocaust, Helmbrechts, Nazism, Nazi Germany, Kristallnacht, Einsatzkommandos, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Soviet Union, Poland, Gestapo, death marches, Final Solution, racial antisemitism, cognitive model, Belzec, eliminationist
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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 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
More details
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Edition: reprint, illustrated
Published by Vintage Books, 1997
ISBN 0679772685, 9780679772682
634 pages
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Contents
Reconceiving Central Aspects of the Holocaust
3
Holocaust , antisemitism , Jews
UNDERSTANDING GERMAN ANTISEMITISM
25
cognitive models , dimensional analysis , semitism
The Evolution of Eliminationist Antisemitism
49
Jews , racial antisemitism , Jewish emancipation
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Wow - very intense book, I only read maybe 6 pages before crying then having nightmares. This book along with "Ordinary Men" is the focus of a paper as well as a quiz for class (I got 100%). the ... more » two authors battle back and forth in their respective afterwards.In a nutshell Browning feels that Germans killed because of peer pressure and felt pretty bad about it later. Goldburg feels that Germans killed because they wanted to, were given permission and didn't feel bad about it later. Both authors agreed that antisemitism played a part. Goldburg feels that it played a much bigger role than Browning does. both men also agreed that ordinary men and women did kill with little encouragement. The debate is healthy, an still waging in the Holocaust field of study and amongst Germans. A good argument can be made for each book. 7-2006 « less
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An explosive work that shatters many of ...
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... the assumptions and commonly accepted myths concerning the Holocaust. Goldhagen (Government and Social Studies/Harvard) offers irrefutable proof that will force us to reconsider our previous ... more » understanding of the Nazis' genocidal project. Traditional explorations tended to accept at face value the usual defenses offered by the Germans: Either they did not know of the genocide or they were compelled to participate against their will. In this exhaustively documented and richly researched work, Goldhagen documents conclusively that the people who actively participated in the extermination program were indeed ""ordinary Germans,"" neither fanatical Nazis nor members of the dreaded SS. By carefully studying the personnel of the death camps and police battalions, the author reveals that they were not forced to participate, nor were they brainwashed by the Nazi regime. One of the book's many virtues is that it insists on placing antisemitism in a larger context; it permeated all segments of German society, including the proletariat, the professions, and the churches. Goldhagen thus offers a new conceptual framework for thinking about the Holocaust. Its documentation will make refutation nearly impossible. Further strengthening bis case, Goldhagen focuses on hitherto neglected aspects of the Holocaust: the police battalions and the death marches that occurred toward the end of the war. Both aspects support his thesis that the genocidal plans of the Nazis found an eagerly receptive audience in Germany. By comparing Nazi policies toward Jews, Slavs, and the infirm (the Euthanasia Program was denounced and resisted by the Germans), we can more clearly see and understand the enormity of the crime and the complicity of ""ordinary Germans."" A profoundly revolutionary work that demands a reexamination of the central moral problem of the 20th century. « less
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Was Slaughter of Jews Embraced by Germans? HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. A basic question posed by students of the Holocaust has to do ...
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - Review: Hitler's Willing Executioners ... Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). 622 pp. ...
jhu.edu
'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange - The New York Review ... An article by Gordon A. Craig from The New York Review of Books, May 23, 1996.
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Review -- 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' This World Wide Web site is the on-line version of the international student-produced magazine, AN END TO INTOLERANCE, for June 1997.
iearn.org
Goldhagen Review by Carl Schulkin. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Hitler's Willing Executioners. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 622 pp. $30.00 ...
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Daniel Goldhagen Vintage Paperback, $16, 634 pp. James Scott of Yale set the tone o.
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Book Review: excerpt from Hitler's Willing Executioners from Goldhagen Reporting on alarming increase of anti-Semitism in Germany. How to guarantee religious and human rights for all Germans.
freedommag.org
Hitler's Willing Executioners (review) Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust , by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. New York: Knopf, 1996. x+622 pages. $30.00. ...
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Hitler's Willing Executioners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996) is a history book by Daniel Goldhagen which posits ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler's_Willing_Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary ...190. Modern Judaism. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans. and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). 622 pp. ...mj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/2/190.pdf
Vintage Catalog Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah ...... that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. ...www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679772685&view=rg
KONRAD KWIETKONRAD KWIET. “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” and “Ordinary Germans”. Some Comments on Goldhagen’s Ideas. 1. Much has been said about Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...web.ceu.hu/jewishstudies/pdf/01_kwiet.pdf
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust ...Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust - Critical Essay from Commonweal in Reference provided free by Find Articlesfindarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_/ai_58400665more »
PEP Web - Hitler's Willing Executioners(1998). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 46:650-653. Hitler's Willing Executioners. Barbara Stimmel Author Information ...www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=APA.046.0650A
JSTOR: Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the ...Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 619. Cloth $30.00. The dustjacket of Daniel Jonah ...links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0149-7952(199610)19%3A3%3C578%3AHWEOGA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
Aspects of the Goldhagen DebateAspects of the Goldhagen Debate. Central to this debate is Daniel Goldhagen’s work Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary ...www.aihgs.com/images/Goldhagen.pdf
An Examination of: Hitler's Willing Executioners; Ordinary Germans ...However, in Daniel Goldhagen's 1995 book Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, the author proposes that there is something ...www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/bat101/TietjenGoldhagenRev.htm
Robert Kunathintertitle.gif (2406 bytes) Volume 5.2 1997 ISSN 1048-3721 This page was last updated on 03/15/99. contents · Home · E-mail ...www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/5-2/kunath.html« less
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Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Eraby Patrick Slattery - Education - 2006 - 330 pages
In this much-anticipated and thoroughly updated edition, noted curriculum studies scholar PatrickSlattery tackles these and other issues to reflect on the current state of...
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Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approachesby Robert H. Jackson, Georg Sorensen - Political Science - 2007 - 376 pages
The book focuses on the main theoretical traditions - Realism, Liberalism, International Society, andtheories of international political economy.
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Framing Europe: Attitudes to European Integration in Germany, Spain, and the ...by Juan Díez Medrano - 2003 - 332 pages
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - 1996 - 622 pages
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - History - 1996 - 622 pages
"--New York Review of Books"The most important book ever published about theHolocaust.
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - History - 1997 - 634 pages
"--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about theHolocaust.
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References from scholarly works
Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration ofInhumanitiesAlbert Bandura - 1999 - Personality and Social Psychology Review
Toward a Theory of Teacher CommunityPamela Grossman, Samuel Wineburg And, Stephen Woolworth - 2001 - The Teachers College Record
The Political Economy of Hatred*Edward L Glaeser - 2005 - Quarterly Journal of Economics
Selective Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral AgencyALBERT BANDURA - 2002 - Journal of Moral Education
Collective Memory and Cultural Constraint: Holocaust Myth and ...Jeffrey K Olick, Daniel Levy - 1997 - American Sociological Review
Key terms
Jozefow, Einsatzgruppen, genocidal, Holocaust, Helmbrechts, Nazism, Nazi Germany, Kristallnacht, Einsatzkommandos, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Soviet Union, Poland, Gestapo, death marches, Final Solution, racial antisemitism, cognitive model, Belzec, eliminationist
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