Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

1996

Captain Wolfgang Hoffmann was a zealous executioner of Jews. As the commander of one of the three companies of Police Battalion 101, he and his fellow officers led their men, who were not SS men but ordinary Germans, in the deportation and gruesome slaughter in Poland of tens of thousands of Jewish men, women, and children. Yet this same man, in…

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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

b. 1959

Born in Boston, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen earned a doctorate in government from Harvard University. He has taught government and social studies at Harvard University, and has analyzed archival materials from Germany. The recipient of Germany’s Democracy Prize, Goldhagen writes about the Holocaust, genocide, political Islam, and contemporary antisemitism.

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