Hitler's Willing Executioners

In this book, Goldhagen challenges common myths about the Holocaust, arguing that tens of thousands of ordinary Germans were actively involved in the extermination of European Jewry.

He posits that a climate of 'eliminationist anti-Semitism' in German society made Hitler's genocidal goals possible.

The book draws on unused archival materials, including the testimony of the killers themselves, to illustrate how ordinary Germans willingly participated in the persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust.