Description
A young political scientist re-visits a question which history has treated as settled and his researches lead him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the answers hold true! That question is 'How could the Holocaust happen?' and his response is an exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945. Delving into materials unexplored by previous scholars, the author marshals new, shocking primary evidence - inc. extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators - to show that the killers were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to act as they did (they knew they could refuse without retribution) yet they killed willingly and zealously! And he shows why. HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS shatters previous accounts of the Holocaust and proves that ordinary Germans believed extermination of the jews to be both necessary and just!
