Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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- ISBN: 0679772685
- ISBN: 9780679772682
- ISBN: 0679446958
- ISBN: 9780679446958
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x, 634 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm - Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1997.
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General Note: | "With a new afterword"--Page 4 of cover. Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1996. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-613) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Reconceiving central aspects of the Holocaust -- 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 -- The eliminationist program and institutions: The Nazis' assault on the Jews : Its character and evolution ; The agents and machinery of destruction -- 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 -- Jewish "work" in annihilation: The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period ; Life in the "work" camps ; Work and death -- Death marches : to the final days: The deadly way ; Marching to what end? -- Eliminationist antisemitism, ordinary Germans, willing executioners: Explaining the perpetrators' actions : assessing the competing explanations ; Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation -- Epilogue: The Nazi German revolution -- Afterword to the Vintage edition -- Appendix 1: A note on method -- Appendix 2: Schematization of the dominant beliefs in Gernalm about Jews, the mentally ill, and Slavs -- Appendix 3: Foreword to the German edition -- Pseudonyms -- Abbreviations. |
Awards Note: | National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction |
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Subject: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes Antisemitism Germany War criminals Germany Psychology National socialism Moral and ethical aspects Antisemitism Germany War criminals Germany Psychology |
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Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
nbsp; Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is an Associate of Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.nbsp; His doctoral dissertation, which is the basis for the book, was awarded the American Political Science Association's 1994 Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of comparative politics.nbsp; After publication of this book in Germany, in 1997 Daniel Johan Goldhagen won the highly prestigious Democracy Prize.nbsp; He is the author of A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair .