Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (1996, Hardcover)

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Explore the depths of one of the most infamous periods in history with "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679446958
ISBN-139780679446958
eBay Product ID (ePID)623070

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Book TitleHitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicHolocaust, Europe / Germany, Discrimination & Race Relations, Genocide & War Crimes
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorDaniel Jonah Goldhagen
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight32.7 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-038591
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal940.5318
SynopsisThis 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 BooksThe most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity.--Philadelphia Inquirer
LC Classification NumberD804.3.G648 1996

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