Unwilling Germans?

Few works of the past 50 years have stirred the German public as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS, which argues that Germans allowed the Holocaust not because they were forced to but out of conviction that killing Jews was morally just. UNWILLING GERMANS? traces the intense and varied reaction to Goldhagen's book.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
A Provocation to a New Historikerstreit	p. 31
A People of "Final Solutionists"? Daniel Goldhagen Dresses an Old Thesis in New Robes	p. 35
Hitler's Code: Holocaust from Faustian Aspirations?	p. 41
The Sociologist as Hanging Judge	p. 47
Sisyphus Is a German	p. 51
Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans	p. 55
A People of Willing Jew Murderers?	p. 75
From Character Assassination to Mass Murder	p. 79
The Murder of Jews as a Societal Project	p. 83
Simply a Bad Book	p. 87
Like a Thorn in the Flesh	p. 93
The Mentality of the Perpetrators	p. 105
The Right Question	p. 109
Familiar Tones	p. 117
Discomposure in History's Final Resting Place	p. 119
The Failure of the Critics	p. 129
What Were the Murderers Thinking? (Interview with Daniel Johah Goldhagen)	p. 151
On the Broad Trail of the German Perpetrators	p. 163
The Universe of Death and Torment	p. 167
Burdens of Proof	p. 175
The Thin Patina of Civilization: Anti-Semitism Was a Necessary, but by No Means a Sufficient, Condition for the Holocaust	p. 183
A Triumphal Procession: Goldhagen and the Germans	p. 197
Why Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Book Is Misleading	p. 203
A Moral Judgment	p. 207
Killing for Desire (Interview with Klaus Theweleit)	p. 211
"The Killers Were Ordinary Germans, Ergo the Ordinary Germans Were Killers": The Logic, the Language, and the Meaning of a Book That Conquered Germany	p. 217
The Jewish Hanging Judge? Goldhagen and the "Self-Confident Nation"	p. 229
Turning Away from Denial: Hitler's Willing Executioners as a Counterforce to "Historical Explanation"	p. 255
Goldhagen and the Public Use of History: Why a Democracy Prize for Daniel Goldhagen?	p. 263
Modell Bundesrepublik: National History, Democracy, and Internationalization in Germany	p. 275
Permissions	p. 287
Index	p. 291
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