Hitlers Willing Executioners
This book explains why the Holocaust occured. The cause of the Holocaust isfound in the beliefs of the Germans. This book tells non-Jewish Germans that theHolocaust did not begin in the gas chambers and was not perpetrated solely by SS officialsin the death camps. He says that the persecution began in schools, at the workplace, instores, at every street corner. Germans
He examines thetreatment of Jews in concentration camps, the behavior of Battalion 101 of the OrderPolice in Poland, and the story of one of the many "death marches" enacted in the last sixmonths of the war. I thought he wrote this way so everyone that read hisbook would see how terrible something like the Holocaust was and not to let anything likethat happen again. A third part of thebook describes the consequences of what he defines as "eliminationist antisemitism"during the implementation of the so-called "final solution". In this third part, the part ofthe book which contains the empirical research, Goldhagen analyses three "case studies"connected to three different aspects of the history of the genocide. tortured and killed the Jews not because they wereordered to but because they wanted to. Two parts of the book analyze the specific natureof German anti-Semitism from the Reformation to the rise of Nazism. The author wrote in a remembering way, he wrote so you wouldn't forget anythingthat had happened to the Jews. I would consider this book to be most useful for the general collegeaudience because the Holocaust contained alot of graphic material and may not beunderstood by junior high school students. The sources used by the author are verydependable references.
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