Hitler's willing executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust /
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Hitler's willing executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, ©1996. - x, 622 p. : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. - A Borzoi book . - 9(569.4)''1939-45''+343.337(43)(=924) (NLA) .
Includes index
Contents: 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 Nazis' assault on the Jews: Its character and evolution -- The agents and machinery of destruction -- 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 -- The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period -- Life in the "work" camps -- Work and death -- The deadly way -- Marching to what end? -- Explaining the perpetrators' actions: Assessing the competing explanations -- Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation.
Summary: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researchers have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is: "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism - and it demands a fundamental
0679446958 9780679446958
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes
Antisemitism--Germany
War criminals--Psychology--Germany
National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects
9(569.4)''1939-45''+343.337(43)(=924) (NLA)
Hitler's willing executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, ©1996. - x, 622 p. : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. - A Borzoi book . - 9(569.4)''1939-45''+343.337(43)(=924) (NLA) .
Includes index
Contents: 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 Nazis' assault on the Jews: Its character and evolution -- The agents and machinery of destruction -- 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 -- The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period -- Life in the "work" camps -- Work and death -- The deadly way -- Marching to what end? -- Explaining the perpetrators' actions: Assessing the competing explanations -- Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation.
Summary: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researchers have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is: "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism - and it demands a fundamental
0679446958 9780679446958
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes
Antisemitism--Germany
War criminals--Psychology--Germany
National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects
9(569.4)''1939-45''+343.337(43)(=924) (NLA)