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INTRODUCTION
Reich: Bavaria 1933–1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983); Sarah Gordon, Hitler,
Germans and the “Jewish Question” (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1984).
10. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and
the Holocaust (New York: Knopf, 1996). But see also the thorough study by John
Weiss, Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (Chicago:
Ivan R. Dee, 1996), and the far more nuanced work by Saul Friedländer, Nazi
Germany and the Jews, Vol. I: The Years of Persecution (New York: Harper-Collins,
1997), the main outlines of whose argument on “redemptive anti-semitism” are
presented in Chapter 4 in this book.
11. For the main contributions to the debate, see Julius H. Schoeps (ed.), Ein Volk von
Mördern Die Dokumentation zur Goldhagen-Kontroverse um die Rolle der
Deutschen im Holocaust (Hamburg: Campe, 1996); Robert R. Shandley (ed.),
Unwilling Germans The Goldhagen Debate (Minneapolis, MN: University of
Minnesota Press, 1998); Norman G. Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn, A Nation
on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (New York: Owl Books,
1998). My own views were articulated in the review article “Ordinary Monsters,”
The New Republic (April 29, 1996): 32–8. See also Geoff Eley and Cathleen Canning
(eds), History, Memory, Nazism: Hitler’s Willing Executioners in European and
American Self-Reflection (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, forthcoming).
12. Raul Hilberg’s major work is The Destruction of the European Jews, rev. edn, 3
vols (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985). See also Hilberg, Perpetrators, Victims,
Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933–1945 (New York: Harper-Collins, 1992).
On his perception of his critics, see Hilberg, The Politics of Memory: The Journey
of a Holocaust Historian (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996).
13. See especially Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance: “Euthanasia” in Germany
1900–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); H. Friedlander, The
Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill,
NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
14. See especially Detlev J. K. Peukert, “The Genesis of the ‘Final Solution’ from the
Spirit of Science,” in Childers and Caplan, Reevaluating the Third Reich, pp. 234–
52; Mario Biagioli, “Science, Modernity, and the ‘Final Solution’,” in Saul
Friedländer (ed.), Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final
Solution” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 185–205. See
further in Robert N. Proctor, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1988); Paul Weindling, Health, Race and German
Politics between National Unification and Nazism 1870–1945 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1989); Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical
Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: Basic Books, 1986); Michael
H. Kater, Doctors Under Hitler (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 1989); Götz Aly, Peter Chroust and Christian Pross, Cleansing the
Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene, trans. Belinda Cooper (Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
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