About this title: In this extraordinarily controversial interpretation of the Holocaust, Goldhagen proposes that virulent anti-Semitism was so ingrained in German culture that the stage was set for the mass slaughter of the Jews long before Adolf Hitler rose to power.
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Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Spine has creases. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
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Description: Acceptable. 1996-Hardcover---No Dust Jacket. -Used-Acceptable-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446958ISBN:0679446958
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket; Light cover and edge wear, mild wear to DJ with very small chips/tears around corners, edges and spine ends, DJ front flap creased, binding tight, text clean. 0679446958; 14166. Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 622 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth and Board
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446958ISBN:0679446958
Description: Very Good++ in Good+ jacket. This is a powerful book on ingrained German antisemitism, and what happened during the years 1933-1945. This is a black hard back Political Science / Holocaust book. The condition is Very Good++, and the jacket is Good+. c1996, later printing. This book has a clean & bright cover with a few light edge bumps. It is a firm book with bright and unmarked pages. No names. The jacket has some short corner tears with some cover wear and a 30% sticker on the cover. Nice ... read more
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Edition: Second Printing Before Publication
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446958ISBN:0679446958
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Like new, clean, unmarked copy. Like new DJ. x, 622 p. : ill.; 25 cm. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-601) and index. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446958ISBN:0679446958
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 622 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light dampstaining to boards, no warping/mildew. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap. Another copy available. "A work of the utmost importance--as authoritative as it is explosive--Hitler's Willing Executioners will fundamentally change our perception of the Holocaust and of Germany in the Nazi period. Goldhagen reaches conclusions that are both uncompromising and ... read more
Edition: 1st US Ed., 3rd printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446958ISBN:0679446958
Description: Good+ to Very Good in Good+ in mylar wrapper jacket. Ex-Library Ex-library but in very clean, almost unread condition, usual library markings. read more
"I have never understood many aspects of the greatest crime in history. How could a cultured industrial nation like Germany create essentially a continental industry devoted to killing human beings? Where did the idea come from? Who planned the Holocaust, and who carried it out? This book answers some of those questions and sheds light on others."
"An extremely interesting work this. In a sentence, the Goldhagen thesis is that preexisting vehement 'eliminationist' antisemitism in Germany was activated by Hitler and manifest in huge numbers of ordinary Germans actively killing and consenting to the perpetration of the Holocaust. As I understand it, by eliminationist antisemitism, the author means that the Germans because of the political and cultural axioms existant in German society which created a 'cognitive framework' in which nearly all Germans instinctively believed that the Jews were an active, dangerous and scheming threat to Germany. His example of a modern day cultural axiom to which nearly all people in the Western world subscribe, subconsciously, is our feeling and belief that 'freedom' is a universally good thing.
A hugely important book which helps the reader throw out numerous emotionally comforting but empirically unsupported theories such as that which suggests that peer pressure caused Germans to act against their wishes; also the theory which says that threats and coercion forced soldiers to kill against their better judgment. Goldhagen looks extensively of the evidence of Police Battalion 101, a police unit comprised of mostly non-Nazi 'ordinary Germans', including forty year-old fathers who grew up before the Nazi period, which committed horrific massacres on an incredible scale with an astonishing frequency. He also looks in detail at the Death Marches which took place as the Germans evacuated Jewish prisoners from soon-to-be captured territory in the East. The Death Marches demonstrated how the German guards acted against conventional rational interests during the last days of the war and continued to rain death and suffering upon their Jewish victims even when the Allies were days away and the war had already been clearly lost.
Goldhagen rather confusingly ends the main section of the book with a comment on how he views the camp to be the representative and defining institution of Nazi Germany. He notes the heirarchy and relationship between the guards, the supremely powerful master-race, and the non-Jewish inmates, including the 'subhuman' Slavs who were subjugated, and the Jewish inmates, who were brutalized by the Germans beyond all human recognition and exterminated as one might vermin.
While I would not say that I agree with everything Goldhagen says, as he on rare occasions resorts to extrapolating rather too far off some single piece of evidence, his overarching argument is hugely convincing and it really is a wonder that some historians still refuse to give recognition to the horrific historical antisemitism harboured by nearly all Germans during the period.
I would say however that is one of the most challenging reads I have come across in recent years, as Goldhagen's writing style is not particularly conducive to easy reading. His run-on sentences did occasionally annoy me to no end!"
"Worst excuse for an empirical study I've ever seen. Just the title itself gives away this lack of understanding of empirical study. What exactly is an "ordinary German"? How do you classify that? No doubt the Nazi's were terrible and many Germans willing participants, that is not my argument. It's just that this book is so obviously editorialized and the author masquerades as a true historian. Also, many of his footnotes and references, refer back to speeches or papers the author authored. He loves quoting himself to make it appear that he has other references to back up his theories. The charts and tables are also laughable."
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