![]() Much of Goldhagen's book is concerned with the actions of the same Reserve Battalion 101 of the Nazi German Ordnungspolizei and his narrative challenges numerous aspects of Browning's book. The book, which began as a Harvard doctoral dissertation, was written largely as an answer to Christopher Browning's 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. These "myths" include the idea that most Germans did not know about the Holocaust that only the SS, and not average members of the Wehrmacht, participated in murdering Jews and that genocidal antisemitism was a uniquely Nazi ideology without historical antecedents. The book challenges several common ideas about the Holocaust that Goldhagen believes to be myths. ![]() Goldhagen asserts that this mentality grew out of medieval attitudes rooted in religion and was later secularized. Goldhagen argues that eliminationist antisemitism was the cornerstone of German national identity, was unique to Germany, and because of it ordinary German conscripts killed Jews willingly. ![]() ![]() Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent " eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture which had developed in the preceding centuries. ![]()
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