Hitler's Willing Executioners

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Mike K.
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Hitler's Willing Executioners

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Post by Mike K. » 23 Jan 2003, 07:17

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Anyone read it? What are your thoughts?

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Post by Qvist » 27 Jan 2003, 10:20

I have read it. To someone like me, who have not read that much about the Holocaust, it did contain some eye-openers - particularly the passages about the Police batallions in the East (Though that is lifted more or less straight from another book whose name eludes me at the moment). All in all though, he does not make either a reasonable case or a reasonable analysis. He pursues a certain line of thought blindly throughout, never allowing qualifications or comparisons to distract him from his chosen path, and expressly rejects any comparative context. He reads like - and essentially is - a prosecutor trying to make his final remarks. This is not historiography.

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