- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (1 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 081663100X
- ISBN-13: 978-0816631001
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Daniel Johah Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners" argued that Germans committed the unthinkable acts of the Holocaust not because they were forced to but out of the conviction that killing Jews was morally just. This work traces the intense and varied reception of his book.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book collects some thirty essays and other materials on Daniel Goldhagen's controversial 1996 book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust." Not every piece the reader might want to find is included here, but more than enough is presented to familiarize the reader with the chief objections to Goldhagen's theses raised by scholars and journalists, as well as the lines of defense offered by his supporters and Goldhagen himself. Although inherently somewhat repetitive, this book would prove rewarding to anyone interested enough in this arcane realm of Holocaust studies to be reading this review.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thought it was an extremely well written and researched debate. I liked Robert's perspective in the introduction the best. I've made the book a required reading for my class. Bravo on the unique perspective of one of the most controversail periods in World History.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The subtitle of this collection of articles is misleading. It's not a representation of the Goldhagen debate in Germany, but a thinly disguised apologia of Goldhagen's book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". First, a number of critical reviews of Goldhagen's work that have appeared in other German newspapers than the weekly DIE ZEIT are ignored or have been deliberately omitted. For example, the historian Hannes Heer wrote a piece for the daily 'die taz' titled "The Great Tautology" that pretty much trashed Goldhagen's book. Second, and more disturbing, several well-argued and balanced appraisals of "Hitler's Willing Executioners", that appeared in scholarly journals in time for a possible inclusion in this volume, are conspicuously absent. The reviews by Juergen Matthaeus in "Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte", Reinhard Ruerup in "Neue Politische Literatur", and Dieter Pohl in "Vierteljahreshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte" give Goldhagen credit where credit is due, but they also reveal repeated inconsistencies, undocumented assertions, and a selective reading of the primary sources and secondary literature. In all, this edition is a disappointment. For an overview of the Goldhagen debate it relies too heavily on statements by non-specialists and brief articles from a narrow range of newspapers.
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