Hitler's Willing Executioners

A work of the utmost originality and importance-as authoritative as it is explosive that radically transforms our understanding of the Holocaust and of Germany during the Nazi period.

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researches have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-Semitism and it demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945.