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Author Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.

Title Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Published New York : Vintage Books, 1997

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 W'PONDS  940.5318 Gol/Hwe 1997  AVAILABLE
Description 634 pages : illustrations, map, portraits
Notes 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
Subject Antisemitism -- Germany.
War criminals -- Germany -- Psychology.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
ISBN 0679772685 paperback