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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 ...
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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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. It has prompted a public tempest and set off a tumultuous polemic among experts.
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.
Nov 24, 2009 · A noble venture, to be sure, and akin to what Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is trying to do with Worse Than War: Genoicide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity.
Jan 28, 1997 · In one of the most controversial and sensational books published in the last decade, Harvard professor Daniel Goldhagen forwards a provocative thesis regarding the culpability of the German people at large for the execution of the Holocaust.
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AMBRIDGE, Mass., March 26 -- In his immense, angry new book, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has challenged a fundamental assumption of the Holocaust, that Germans blindly followed orders, or were...
