In 1997, Daniel Goldhagen published his groundbreaking international bestseller entitled Hitler’s Willing Executioners, which he believed would lay 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.\ Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen took his readers into the killing fields...
Demands a fundmental revision in our thinking of the years between 1933 and 1945.
ForewordPrefaceGold-Hagen and "Siegfried"1The Nightmares of Ruth Bettina Birn115Kater and Mouse125Instead of a Postscript145The German Historians162Bibliography164Index185