Hitler's willing executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Published to vast acclaim, this groundbreaking No.1 international bestseller lays to rest persistent myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were opposed to the persecution of Jews and that those who killed did so reluctantly. Anyone who reads Hitler's Willing Executioners will find compelling evidence that the Holocaust engaged the energies and enthusiasms of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans who, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterably evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion.