![]() Before addressing the book and its critics, it is worth noting what is at stake in the controversy sparked by Goldhagen. In fact, it has been subjected to sharp, even withering, criticism by other Holocaust scholars. Not everybody, however, has been so enthusiastic about Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s revisionist history of the Holocaust. As they say in the book business, a launch can’t get much more spectacular than this. ![]() The book quickly became the subject of academic symposia and television chatters. ![]() Rosenthal writes in the Times that reading the book was for him a formative experience comparable to his first visit to Auschwitz at the end of the war. Stanley Hoffmann of Harvard says that Hitler’s Willing Executioners is “truly revolutionary,” and Simon Schama of Harvard declares that this “astonishing, disturbing, and riveting book, the fruit of phenomenal scholarship and absolute integrity, will permanently change the debate on the Holocaust.” A. With the help of effusive praise from noted academics and journalists, it promptly makes its way up the New York Times best-seller list. The son of a distinguished Holocaust scholar at Harvard turns his doctoral dissertation, which won the 1994 award of the American Political Science Association, into a book published and lavishly promoted by one of our most prestigious houses. ![]() Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust ![]()
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