Description
| Product ID: | 9780349107868 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Hitler's Willing Executioners |
| Subtitle: | Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust |
| Authors: | Author: Daniel Goldhagen |
| Page Count: | 656 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, The Holocaust, Second World War, The Holocaust, Second World War, Germany, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945. The author aims to show that the perpetrators of the Holocaust were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to kill, but did so willingly and zealously. Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945. The author marshals fresh, primary evidence - including extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators - to show that the killers were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to act as they did (they knew they could refuse without retribution) yet they killed willingly and zealously. |
| Imprint Name: | Abacus |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1997-03-03 |
