Books like Hitler's willing executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen


This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. - Publisher.
First publish date: 1996
Authors: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 0.0 (0 community ratings)

Hitler's willing executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

How are these books recommended?

The books recommended for Hitler's willing executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.


Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.

Books similar to Hitler's willing executioners (13 similar books)

Bloodlands by 9743336|Timothy Snyder book cover

πŸ“˜ Bloodlands

Bloodlands chronicles the brutal mass killings that took place between 1939 and 1945 in Eastern Europe, detailing how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly perpetrated genocide, war crimes, and forced famines that claimed millions of lives.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 4.5 (2 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
The emperor of lies by 8040840|Steve Sem-Sandberg book cover

πŸ“˜ The emperor of lies

Set in Warsaw during World WarΒ II, the novel follows Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, director of the Jewish ghetto, as he transforms it into an industrial hub, a decision that yields profound consequences.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 5.0 (1 rating)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Scourge of the Swastika by 7464414|Lord Russell of Liverpool book cover

πŸ“˜ Scourge of the Swastika


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Das Dritte Reich des Traums by 13351341|Charlotte Beradt book cover

πŸ“˜ Das Dritte Reich des Traums


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Making friends with Hitler by 6639973|Ian Kershaw book cover

πŸ“˜ Making friends with Hitler


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Hitler's Diplomat by 8192126|John Weitz book cover

πŸ“˜ Hitler's Diplomat
 by John Weitz

This first full-length English-language biography of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler's notorious foreign minister, is also an authoritative account of the social and political workings of Nazi Germany. The result of a lifetime of research and firsthand experience, the book combines narrative history of the highest order and intimate familiarity with the people, events, and social currents that animated Hitler's regime. A well-to-do social climber who made and married money, von Ribbentrop was among the few in Hitler's circle with a claim to social prominence. As ambassador to England, von Ribbentrop quickly worked his way up to head the Foreign Ministry, along the way negotiating the British Naval Agreement, the Anti-Comintern Pact, and the Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Frustrated during the war, when diplomacy was rendered virtually obsolete, von Ribbentrop never forsook his Fuhrer even at Nurnberg, where he was tried and hanged as a senior war criminal. With a provocative foreword by Tom Wolfe that draws disturbing comparisons between the Berlin of the 1930s and American society of the 1980s, Hitler's Diplomat is not only the riveting story of one of Hitler's closest collaborators, it also provides a window onto a side of Nazi Germany that is as fascinating as it is troubling: the men and women of culture and means who gave themselves to Hitler and his war machine.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
The black angels by 12713649|Rupert Butler book cover

πŸ“˜ The black angels

A comprehensive examination of the Waffen‑SS, detailing its origins, development, combat exploits and the brutal atrocities that defined Germany’s paramilitary force during World Warβ€―II.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
The New Order (The Third Reich) by 4977129|Time-Life Books book cover

πŸ“˜ The New Order (The Third Reich)


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
A lethal obsession by 11896772|Robert S. Wistrich book cover

πŸ“˜ A lethal obsession


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Worse than war by 8817356|Daniel Jonah Goldhagen book cover

πŸ“˜ Worse than war


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Joseph Goebbels by 7000114|Jeremy Roberts book cover

πŸ“˜ Joseph Goebbels

A biography of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, exploring his influence on Hitler’s antisemitic policies and the Holocaust.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Rywka's diary by 11951068|Rywka Lipszyc book cover

πŸ“˜ Rywka's diary


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Hitler e il nazismo magico by 10432396|Giorgio Galli book cover

πŸ“˜ Hitler e il nazismo magico


β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Some Other Similar Books

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert N. Proctor
Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees
The Holocaust: A New History by Richard J. Evans
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Peter Longerich
The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration by Mark Roseman
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!

Please login to submit books!