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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born June 30, 1959) 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 ...
Goldhagen — His Critics and His Contribution. Prof. Israel Gutman. Since its appearance Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust 1 has reached a vast public in the United States and in other countries.
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.
About Hitler’s Willing Executioners. 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.
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). He is also the author of Worse Than War (2009), which examines the phenomenon of genocide.
Apr 1, 1996 · In his immense, angry new book, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has challenged a fundamental assumption of the Holocaust, that Germans blindly followed orders, or were coerced by their superiors, in...
