Hitler's willing executioners, ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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Hitler's willing executioners, ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-601) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Hitler's willing executioners
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bibliography
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33103054
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Sub title
ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Summary
Probing the institutions and inherent anti-Semitism of German society, a revisionist study of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust reveals why ordinary Germans from all walks of life participated willingly and zealously in the extermination of the Jews
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Reconceiving central aspects of the Holocaust -- Part I : Understanding German antisemitism: The eliminationist mindset -- Chapter 1 : Recasting the view of antisemitism: A framework for analysis -- Chapter 2 : The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany -- Chapter 3 : Eliminationist antisemitism : The "Common Sense" of German society during the Nazi period -- Part II : The eliminationist program and institutions -- Chapter 4 : The Nazis' assault on the Jews: Its character and evolution -- Chapter 5 : The agents and machinery of destruction -- Part II : Police battalions: Ordinary Germans, willing killers -- Chapter 6 : Police battalions: Agents of genocide -- Chapter 7 : Police battalion 101: The men's deeds -- Chapter 8 : Police battalion 101: Assessing the men's motives -- Chapter 9 : Police battalions: Lives, killings, and motives -- Part IV : Jewish "work" is annihilation -- Chapter 10 : The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period -- Chapter 11 : Life in the "work" camps -- Chapter 12 : Work and death -- Part V : Death marches: To the final days -- Chapter 13 : The deadly way -- Chapter 14 : Marching to what end? -- Part VI : Eliminationist antisemitism, ordinary Germans, willing executioners -- Chapter 15 : Explaining the perpetrators' actions: Assessing the competing explanations -- Chapter 16 : Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation -- Epilogue : The Nazi German revolution -- Appendix 1 : A note on method -- Appendix 2 : Schematization of the odminant beliefs in Germany about Jews, the mentally ill, and Slavs
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