Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1933-1945
- Setting: Primarily Nazi Germany
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: World War II, Anti-Semitism, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish, Jews and Gentiles, Concentration camps, Genocide
- Locales: Germany
Begin with a young Harvard professor of government who is as bright as he is brash and whose ways with words are as pretentious as they are perplexing. Take his doctoral dissertation and turn it into a book whose methodology, tone, and content intentionally collide with judgments of the major scholars in the field. Promote the book in ways that propel it to international best-seller status and hurl its largely unknown author into media spotlights. Such ingredients are bound to cause a stir. Focus them on a topic charged with intense feeling and profound implications—the Holocaust, the...
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