Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Recasting the view of antisemitism: A framework for analysis -- The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany -- Eliminationist antisemitism: The "common sense" of German society during the Nazi period -- The Nazis' assault on the Jews: Its character and evolution --...

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Main Authors:Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York : Knopf, 1996
Edition:Thirteenth Printing August 2002
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Recasting the view of antisemitism: A framework for analysis
The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany
Eliminationist antisemitism: The "common sense" of German society during the Nazi period
The Nazis' assault on the Jews: Its character and evolution
The agents and machinery of destruction
Police battalions: Agents of genocide
Police Battalion 101: The men's deeds
Police battalion 101: Assessing the men's motives
Police battalions: Lives, killings, and motives
The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period
Life in the "work" camps
Work and death
The deadly way
Marching to what end?
Explaining the perpetrators' actions: Assessing the competing explanations
Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation.