Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Paperback edition of this fresh and controversial look at the Holocaust. Goldhagen examines German society and its inherent anti-semitism and uses material unexplored by previous historians. Testimony from actual perpetrators shows that, far from being coerced, they killed willingly and with enthusiasm. Ordinary Germans believed that the extermination of the Jews was necessary and just. "Shocking and well-documented... I hope this book will be widely read." A.N. Wilson, "Evening Standard". B/w illus.