Hitler's willing executioners

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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. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. - Publisher.

subjects: Antisemitism,  Antisemitismo,  Aspectos éticos y morales,  Causas,  Causes,  Criminales de guerra,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Holocausto judío (1939-1945),  Moral and ethical aspects,  Moral and ethical aspects of National socialism,  Nacionalsocialismo,  National socialism,  Psychology,  War criminals,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.,  World War, 1939-1945,  Genocide,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes,  Antisemitism -- Germany,  War criminals -- Germany -- Psychology,  National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects.,  War crimes,  Täter,  Antisemitisme,  Schuld,  Antisemitismus,  Holocaust,  Judenvernichtung,  Nazisme,  Psychological aspects,  Criminels de guerre,  Jewish holocaust (1933-1945),  War,  Motivation,  Holocauste, 1939-1945,  Oorlogsmisdadigers,  BMBF-Statusseminar gnd,  Antisémitisme,  Psychologie,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866,  Aspect moral,  National-socialisme,  Extermination (1939-1945),  Tweede Wereldoorlog,  Juifs,  Persécutions,  Germania,  Ebrei,  Persecuzione,  1933-1945,  New York Times reviewed,  Germany, ethnic relations,  Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)--causes,  Antisemitism--germany,  War criminals--psychology,  War criminals--germany--psychology,  National socialism--moral and ethical aspects,  D804.3 .g648 1996,  000118954,  940.53/18

Places: Alemania,  Germany