Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researchers have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is: "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism - and it demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945. Drawing principally on materials either unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Goldhagen marshals new, disquieting, primary evidence - including extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators themselves - to show that many beliefs about the killers are fallacies: They were not primarily SS men or Nazi Party members, but perfectly ordinary Germans from all walks of life, men (and women) who brutalized and murdered Jews both willingly and zealously.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Holocaust / Holocaust--Warcrimes
Classification	940.4 GOL
Publisher	New York, N.Y., Vintage Books, 1997
Subject	Holocaust.Holocaust--War crimes.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.Antisemitism--Europe--Pre HolocaustAntisemitism--Germany.War criminals--Germany--Psychology.World War 1939-1945--Atrocities.Nazi Germany--Mass Murders--AntisemitismJews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century
Description	634
ISBN	9780679772682
URL	https://books.google.com.hk/books/about/Hitler_s_Willing_Executioners.html?id=k2g0s2FypU4C&redir_esc=y