Hitler's Willing Executioners
Subtitle: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Publisher: Vintage
Published: January 28, 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780679772682
Subjects: Jewish - General; Holocaust; Germany; History - General History; War criminals; History: World; Psychology; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Europe - Germany; History / Germany; Reading Group Guide; Antisemitism; Causes
First sentence: IN THINKING ABOUT German antisemitism, people have a tendency to make important, unacknowledged assumptions about Germans before and during the Nazi period that bear scrutiny and revision.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Reconceiving central aspects of the Holocaust; title: Part 1 : Understanding German antisemitism : the eliminationist mind-set.; title: Recasting the view of antisemitism : a framework for analysis; title: The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany; title: Eliminationist antisemitism : the "common sense" of German society during the Nazi period; title: Part 2 : The eliminationist program and institutions.; title: The Nazis' assault on the Jews : its character and evolution; title: The agents and machinery of destruction; title: Part 3 : Police battalions : ordinary Germans, willing killers.; title: Police battalions : agents of genocide; title: Police Battalion 101 : the men's deeds; title: Police Battalion 101 : assessing the men's motives; title: Police battalions : lives, killings, and motives; title: Part 4 : Jewish "work" is annihilation.; title: The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period; title: Life in the "work" camps; title: Work and death; title: Part 5 : Death marches : to the final days.; title: The deadly way; title: Marching to what end?; title: Part 6 : Eliminationist antisemitism, ordinary Germans, willing executioners.; title: Explaining the perpetrators' actions : assessing the competing explanations; title: Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation; title: Epilogue : The Nazi German revolution; title: Afterword to the Vintage edition; title: Appendixes.; title: A note on method; title: Schematization of the dominant beliefs in Germany about Jews, the mentally ill, and Slavs; title: Foreword to the German edition