Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Critical Inquiry
Angaben zur Quelle:
23,4 (1997) 721-728
Schlagwort(e):
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
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Antisemitism History 1933-1945
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Jews History 1939-1945
Kurzfassung:
Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners" states boldly what has always been known, that not only were these men killers, but that they were willing. Goldhagen overstates the extent and depth of German antisemitism, and underplays two factors that greatly weaken his basic thesis: not all the killers were German and not all the victims were Jews. The initial reaction of scholars in Germany to Goldhagen's book was "outrage". The book is popular among ordinary Germans because it provides them with a source of information which could justify their resentment and rejection of their forebears.
Anmerkung:
On Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, "Hitler's Willing Executioners; Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" (1996).
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Appeared also in "Yad Vashem Studies" 26 (1998) - in the English and the Hebrew editions. In French: "Les Temps Modernes" 592 (1997) 1-10. In German: "Geschichtswissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit" (1998) 27-37. In Spanish: "Los alemanes, el Holocausto y la culpa colectiva" (1999) 219-227.
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