Hitler's willing executioners: ordinary Germans and the Holocaust/

Main Author: Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [London]: Abacus, [c1996, 1997]
Subjects:
Table of 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