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...Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in his book Hitler's Willing Executioners [BOOKS, April 1] asks a question that Germans of the younger generation have long wanted to pose to their parents and grandparents: What did they know, and what did they do? One thing is certain: there are no simple answers. The Holocaust plot involved fanaticized henchmen as well as sadistic executioners, opportunistic collaborators and people who heard rumors they would or would not believe in the context of raging war and burning cities. After all, the regime went to extraordinary lengths to disguise what was going on, apparently afraid...
...murder of 6 million European Jews was primarily carried out by Nazi zealots. Ordinary Germans, we like to think, knew little or nothing about the Holocaust; if they participated in the killings, they did so under duress, subject to orders that could not be disobeyed. Utter nonsense, argues Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, an assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard. In an explosive new book, Hitler's Willing Executioners (Knopf; 622 pages; $30), he contends that the perpetrators of the Final Solution were, by and large, ordinary men and women, workers, merchants and so on, who, millions strong, ravaged...
...19th century English writer Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past. By this stern standard, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has done his job with a pen in one hand, a noose in the other...
BOOKS . . . HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS: Based in part on German archives that have been neglected or ignored by other scholars, 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' contends that ordinary Germans were not passive and helpless witnesses to the Holocaust. Instead, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the perpetrators of the Final Solution were ordinary men and women, workers, merchants and so on, who ravaged the ghettos, brutally supervised the death camps and enthusiastically carried out Hitler's plan to destroy world Jewry. Goldhagen's indictment focuses on the citizenry's complicity in three specific "institutions of mass killing": Germany's police battalions...
Tourists at Harvard often make eccentric requests, as first-years Sarah E. Stoltzner and Jonah I. Zwemer learned recently...