This author gained international attention for his controversial works examining the Holocaust and genocide. His writing delves into the roles ordinary people play in mass atrocities and the moral reckoning of societies. Though often sparking intense debate, his analyses compel readers to confront profound questions about the nature of evil and human responsibility. His style is direct and provocative, focusing on the moral dimensions of historical events.
A groundbreaking - and terrifying - examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.
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
A deep moral examination of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust.
Drawing principally on materials unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Daniel Goldhagen marshals new primary evidence to show that ordinary Germans were involved in the atrocities against the Jews during the Nazi regime.