Daniel Goldhagen Books

A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year: "A magisterial and profoundly disturbing 'natural history' of mass murder." Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. "Worse Than War" gets to the heart of the phenomenon, genocide, that has caused more deaths in the modern world than military conflict. In doing so, it challenges fundamental things we thought we knew about human beings, society, and politics. Drawing on extensive field work and research from around the world, Goldhagen explores the anatomy of genocide--explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them, why they happen so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them. As a great book should, "Worse than War" seeks to change the way we think and to offer new possibilities for a better world. It tells us how we might at last begin to eradicate this greatest scourge of humankind.

In this book Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust, transforming a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long-overdue investigation of the Church throughout Europe. He shows that the Church's and the Pope's complicity in the persecution of the Jews was much deeper than has been understood. The Church's leaders were fully aware of the persecutions and they did not speak out and urge resistance. Instead, they supported many aspects of the persecution. Some clergy even took part in the mass murder. But Goldhagen goes further and develops a new, precise way for assessing the Church and its clergy's culpability. He then shows that the Church has, even according to its own doctrine, an unacknowledged duty of repair. He explores this duty, analyzes the Church's tactics of evasion, and delineates all that the Church must do to repair the harm it inflicted on Jews and to heal itself

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researchers have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is: "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism - and it demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945

A deep moral examination of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust.

Daniel J. Goldhagens Buch "Hitlers willige Vollstrecker" hat eine hitzige Debatte ausgelöst. Den Autor erreichten mittlerweile Hunderte von Leserzuschriften. Für dieses Buch wurde eine Auswahl zusammengestellt - die Stimmen reichen von zustimmend und abwägend bis zornig und entrüstet.

This groundbreaking international bestseller dispels many myths about the Holocaust, including the belief that Germans were unaware of the mass extermination of Jews and that only SS men were responsible for the killings. It presents compelling evidence that the extermination engaged the energies of countless ordinary Germans. The author reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that fueled Hitler's genocidal ambitions and made the radical persecution of Jews in the 1930s widely accepted. Utilizing a wealth of unused archival materials, particularly testimonies from the perpetrators, the narrative reveals how Germans actively hunted Jews, subjected them to torture, and even posed for photographs with their victims. From mobile killing units to concentration camps and death marches, the work illustrates how ordinary Germans, raised in a society that viewed Jews as inherently evil, followed their beliefs to horrific ends. This book is hailed as a significant contribution to Holocaust literature, noted for its eloquence, meticulous documentation, and moral integrity, making it a pivotal read for understanding this dark chapter in history.

Autor provokativně zkoumá, čím přesně je antisemitismus v jedenadvacátém století, a nastoluje znepokojivé nové paradigma jeho chápání. Dále se zabývá rozměry této hrozby, vysvětluje, jak nové technologie přiživily oheň, jenž před nástupem nového tisíciletí jen doutnal. Výsledky jsou ničivé. Goldhagen rozebírá, jak se antisemitismus mezinárodně prosadil v institucích, jako je OSN a přední nevládní organizace, i v široké koalici nepřátelských států, jak antisemitismus po celém světě podněcují média i akademická sféra. Autor předkládá těm, jimž leží na srdci spravedlnost a morálka, plán tohoto nejznepokojivějšího předsudku.