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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).
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.
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust 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 ...
The Nazi party and Hitler came to power because of a variety of circumstances, none of which was inevitable: their defeat in the First World War; the problems of the Weimar Republic; the severe depression that hit Germany; the unstable political situation; the desire of the Germans to reclaim what they considered to be their rightful place in Eu...
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.
Nov 5, 2015 · Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Harvard Professor talks about his book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust”, which talks about opposit...
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.
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