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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born June 30, 1959) [1] is an American author, and former associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen reached international attention and broad criticism as the author of two books about the Holocaust: Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996), and A Moral Reckoning (2002).
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues collective guilt, 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 ...
Prof. Goldhagen, author of Why the Germans? Why the Jews?, discusses the historical and ideological roots of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust. He explains the role of Christian antisemitism, the Nazi state, and the contingent factors that enabled the genocide.
Since its appearance Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust1 has reached a vast public in the United States and in other countries. It has prompted a public tempest and set off a tumultuous polemic among experts.
24 Sep 2014 · Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Harvard Professor and author of “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust” (Taped 10-30-96)In May 1956, Richa...
28 Jan 1997 · 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...
5 Nov 2015 · Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Harvard Professor talks about his book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust”, which talks about opposit...
