Description: Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book comes with 2 vintage Newspaper articles. In this book, American writer Daniel Goldhagen, argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were willing executioners in the Holocaust because they were steeped in a historical culture of anti-Semitism. “They tortured and massacred Jews, starved them, toyed with them, punished them for their birth, and they did so voluntarily, even eagerly, with unsurpassable malice and cruelty.” “The German perpetrators,'' Mr. Goldhagen writes, ''were assenting mass executioners, men and women who, true to their own eliminationist anti-Semitic beliefs, faithful to their cultural anti-Semitic credo, considered the slaughter to be just.'' “Mr. Goldhagen’s depiction of the institutions of killing is the broadest study of the perpetrators of the genocide yet done. It also represents a high attainment in scholarship, in historical writing and in moral perceptiveness.” (Richard Bernstein, New York Times Book review, Mar 27, 1996). This book comes with 2 vintage Newspaper articles: *A Personal Account of a Holocaust survivor published on The Claremont Courier in the 1970s. *An article about Roberta Frances "Bobbi" Fiedler, a Jewish American politician who served three terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from California from 1981 to 1987. (published on The Claremont Courier in the 1970s). CONTENTS: Introduction: Reconceiving Central Aspects of the Holocaust PART I: UNDERSTANDING GERMAN ANTISEMITISM: THE ELIMINATIONIST MIND-SET *Recasting the View of Antisemitism: A Framework for Analysis *The Evolution of Eliminationist Antisemitism in Modern Germany *Eliminationist Antisemitism: The "Common Sense" of German Society During the Nazi Period PART II: THE ELIMINATIONIST PROGRAM AND INSTITUTIONS *The Nazis' Assault on the Jews: Its Character and Evolution *The Agents and Machinery of Destruction PART III: POLICE BATTALIONS: ORDINARY GERMANS, WILLING KILLERS *Police Battalions: Agents of Genocide *Police Battalion 101: The Men's Deeds *Police Battalion 101: Assessing the Men's Motives *Police Battalions: Lives, Killings, and Motives PART IV: JEWISH "WORK" IS ANNIHILATION *The Sources and Pattern of Jewish "Work" During the Nazi Period *Life in the "Work" Camps *Work and Death PART V: DEATH MARCHES: TO THE FINAL DAYS *The Deadly Way *Marching to What End? PART VI: ELIMINATIONIST ANTISEMITISM, ORDINARY GERMANS, WILLING EXECUTIONERS *Explaining the Perpetrators' Actions: Assessing the Competing Explanations *Eliminationist Antisemitism as Genocidal Motivation Epilogue: The Nazi German Revolution Appendix 1: A Note on Method Appendix 2: Schematization of the Dominant Beliefs in Germany about Jews, the Mentally IIl, and Slavs Pseudonyms Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Tight binding, clean text. The cover and the dust jacket are scuffed. A price tag is glued to the front cover. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION.
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Book Title: Hitler's Willing Executioners
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Book Series: Borzoi book
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
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Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1996
Type: Non-fiction
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1933-1945
Author: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Features: Dust Jacket, Bibliographical references, Index, Maps, Epilogue: The Nazi German Revolution, Schematization of the Dominant Beliefs in Germany about Jews, A Note on Method, Pseudonyms, Abbreviations, Notes, Acknowledgments, 1st Edition, Vintage Newspaper articles
Genre: History, Social Science, Political Science, Psychology, Anthropology, Antiquarian & Collectible, Nonfiction, Historiography
Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, Antisemitism, cultural hatred, slave labor camps, death marches, Jewish holocaust (1933-1945), Military & War, World War II, WW2, Germany, German police battalions, War criminals, War crimes, Nazi ideology and ethics, Psychology of War Crimes, genocide, cruelty, Totalitarianism, state terrorism
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
