Holocaust views; the Goldhagen controversy in retrospect

Deák, István, 1926-2023
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Title Holocaust views
the Goldhagen controversy in retrospect.
Additional Titles Miradas sobre el Holocausto
la controversia Goldhagen en retrospectiva
Original Library/publisher Los alemanes, el Holocausto y la culpa colectiva
el debate Goldhagen. Ed.: Federico Finchelstein. Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 1999
Host Item Central European History 30,2 (1997) 295-307
Description Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners", in which he ascribed "eliminationist antisemitism" to all of German culture and declared this antisemitism to be responsible for the Holocaust, was dismissed by most of the academic world. Toward the end of 1996, the reception of the book was somewhat more positive, especially in Germany. Contends that Goldhagen deserved most of the criticism vaunted against his book. Asserts that German antisemitism was not very different from that in other countries
that not only Germans participated in the genocide
that pre-Hitler Germany did not know such a hatred for the Jews
that the pattern of the Nazi murderers' behavior toward victims other than Jews was not very different from their behavior toward Jews
and that the historian must not generalize from the behavior of the Nazis to the entire German people. States that the book has some merits: its style is passionate and its descriptions are vivid. But it contains many unsubstantiated claims and not much that is new. Its intention is to shock rather than to make a contribution to the writing of history. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
On Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, "Hitler's Willing Executioners
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" (1996).
Appeared in Spanish in "Los alemanes, el Holocausto y la culpa colectiva" (1999) 73-88.
Language English
Spanish
National Library system number 990002029950705171
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