Hitler's Willing Executioners Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

"Based in part on German archives that have been neglected or ignored by other scholars, 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' is as relentless as a trip-hammer, sometimes irritatingly repetitive and loftily dismissive of contrary judgments that Goldhagen believes lack sufficient evidence....It's a pretty sweeping indictment, one that Goldhagen supports by noting that from medieval until modern times, German culture was suffused with what he calls an 'eliminationist anti-Semitism' that demonized Jews as the source of all social ills....Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past. By this stern standard, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has done his job with a pen in one hand, a noose in the other."Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah is the author of 'Hitler's Willing Executioners Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust', published 1996 under ISBN 9780679446958 and ISBN 0679446958.