Goldhagen - his critics and his contribution

Gutman, Israel
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Title Goldhagen - his critics and his contribution.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 26 (1998) 329-364
Description Contends that those who hastily dismissed and rejected Daniel Goldhagen's book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" were short-sighted. In the historiography of the last two decades, there has been a tendency toward normalization of the Holocaust. The anger engendered by Goldhagen's book derives mainly from its challenge to this new trend. Criticizes Goldhagen's conception of German antisemitism: not always was it so strong and pervasive
the rise of modern antisemitism in the interwar period affected not only Germany
there were many motives other than antisemitism which induced Germans to vote for Hitler. Goldhagen also neglects circumstances other than popular antisemitism that helped Hitler to pursue his anti-Jewish policies. However, in some cases Goldhagen gives a better perspective of the events and their motives than contemporary scholars - e.g. Christopher Browning, who ascribes the Nazi atrocities to wartime brutalization, or Hans Mommsen, who lays all the responsibility on those who gave the orders. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
English and Hebrew.
On Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, "Hitler's Willing Executioners
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" (1996).
Appeared in Hebrew also in his collected articles
"סוגיות בחקר השואה" (תשסט) 233-257
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990002060490705171
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

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