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Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

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This is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture which had developed in the preceding centuries. Goldhagen argues that eliminationist antisemitism was the cornerstone of German national identity, was unique to Germany, and because of it ordinary German conscripts killed Jews willingly. Goldhagen asserts that this mentality grew out of medieval attitudes rooted in religion and was later secularized.
The book challenges several common ideas about the Holocaust that Goldhagen believes to be myths. These "myths" include the idea that most Germans did not know about the Holocaust; that only the SS, and not average members of the Wehrmacht, participated in murdering Jews; and that genocidal antisemitism was a uniquely Nazi ideology without historical antecedents. (wikipedia)

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Call Number

940.5318 Gol h

Publisher

London : Abacus., 1996

Collation

xiv + 634 p.; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-349-10786-6

Classification

940.5318

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Antisemitism
National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects - ge

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