Holocaust Views: The Goldhagen Controversy in Retrospect

Central European History

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 295-307

  Deák, István ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 85007988511     PISSN: 00089389     EISSN: 15691616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0008938900014059     Document Type: Review

References (52)

1. The New York Times, 27 March, 2, 14, 25 April 1996.
2. Elie Wiesel, “Little Hitlers,” The Observer, 31 March 1996; Andrei S. Markovits, “Storfall im Endlager der Geschichte,” in Ein Volk von Mordem?: Die Dokumentation zur Goldhagen Kontroverse und die Rolle der Deutschen im Holocaust, ed. Julius H. Schoeps (Hamburg, 1996), 228-40. Richard Bernstein and A. M. Rosenthal wrote very positive reviews in The New York Times, 27 March and, respectively, 2 April 1996.
3. Omer Bartov, “Ordinary Monsters,” The New Republic, 29 April 1996, pp. 32-38.
4. Fritz Stern, “The Goldhagen Controversy: One Nation, One People, One Theory?” Foreign AJairs 75, no. 6 (November/December 1996): 128-38.
5. See Hans-Ulrich Wehler, “The Goldhagen Controversy: Agonizing Problems, Scholarly Failure, and the Political Dimension,” German History 15, no. 1 (1997): 80-91. This is an expanded version of an article that appeared in Die Zeit, 24 May 1996.
6. Dieter Pohl, “Die Holocaust-Forschung und Goldhagens Thesen,” Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte 45, no. 1 (January 1997): 1-48.
7. Christopher Browning, “Damonisierung erklart nichts,” Die Zeit, 19 April 1996.
8. Eberhard Jackel, “Einfach ein schlechtes Buch,” Die Zeit, 17 May 1996.
9. David Schoenbaum, “Ordinary People”? National Review, 1 July 1996.
10. See German Studies Review 19, no. 3 (October 1996): 578-80.
11. Kristen R. Monroe, American Political Science Review 91, no. 1 (1997): 212-13.
12. Ruth Bettina Birn, “Historiographical Review: Revising the Holocaust,” The Historical Journal 40, no. 1 (1997): 195-215.
13. Norbert Frei “Ein Volk von ‘Endlosern'? Daniel Goldhagen beschreibt die Deutschen als ‘Hitlers willige Vollstrecker,’” Suddeutsche Zeitung, 13 April 1996.
14. See Gordon Craig's review in The New York Review of Books, 18 April 1996.
15. Volker Berghahn, “The Road to Extermination,” The New York Times, 14 April, 1996.
16. Paul Johnson, “An Epidemic of Hatred,” The Washington Post, 24 March 1996.
17. Josef Joffe, “Goldhagen in Germany,” The New York Review of Books, 28 November 1996.
18. “Goldhagen in Germany,”.
19. See, for example, Volker Ullrich, “Ein Buch provoziert einen neuen Historikerstreit: Waren die Deutschen doch alle schuldig”? Die Zeit, 12 April 1996.
20. Der Spiegel, 15 April 1996.
21. Jackel, “Einfach ein schlechtes Buch.”
22. That was Hans-Ulrich Wehler's characterization. See Josef Joffe, “Goldhagen in Germany.”
23. Daniel Goldhagen, “Das Versagen der Kritiker,” Die Zeit, 2 August 1996.
24. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York, 1996), chap. 15, n. 38, on 582.
25. Julius H. Schoeps, ed., Bin Volk von Mordent? Die Dokumentation zur Goldhagen Kontroverse und die Rolle der Deutschen im Holocaust (Hamburg, 1996).
26. See Goldhagen's comments in The New York Times, 27 March 1996.
27. Wehler, “The Goldhagen Controversy,” 81-83.
28. Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York, 1992).
29. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners, 428.
30. Hitler's Willing Executioners., 392.
31. Hitler's Willing Executioners., 390.
32. Hitler's Willing Executioners…, 402.
33. Hitler's Willing Executioners…, 56.
34. Hitler's Willing Executioners…, 85.
35. Hitler's Willing Executioners…, 75.
36. Bern Engelmann, In Hitler's Germany: Daily Life in the Third Reich, trans. Krishna Winston (New York, 1986), 138-39, 223ff. The Goldhagen quote is on page 101 of Hitlers Willing Executioners.
37. See particularly, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, “Motives, Causes, Alibis,” The New Republic, 23 December 1996, 37-45.
38. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners, 425.
39. Goldhagen, “Motives, Causes, Alibis,” 37.
40. Dieter Pohl, Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien, 1941-1944: Organisation und Durchfiihrung eines staatlichen Massenverbrechens (Munich, 1996).
41. Pohl, “Die Holocaust-Forschung und Goldhagens Thesen,” 1-48.
42. “Die Holocaust-Forschung und Goldhagens Thesen,”., 15.
43. “Die Holocaust-Forschung und Goldhagens Thesen,”., 16-21.
44. See Henry Friedlander's review of Hitler's Willing Executioners in German Studies Review, 19, no. 3 (October 1996): 580.
45. Pohl, “Die Holocaust-Forschung und Goldhagens Thesen,” 16-21.
46. Laszlo Karsai, “Torteneszek, gyilkosok, aldozatok” [Historians, murderers, victims], Beszelb (Budapest, June 1997): 34-59. The quotation is on page 53 of the manuscript.
47. Ruth Bettina Birn, Die hoheren SS-und Polizeifuhrer: Hitlers Vertreter im Reich und in den besetzten Gebieten (Diisseldorf, 1986).
48. Ruth Bettina Birn, “Historiographical Review: Revising the Holocaust,” The Historical Journal 40, no. 1(1997): 197.
49. The Historical Journal., 198-99.
50. The Historical Journal., 200.
51. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners, 587.
52. Gitta Sereny, “The Complexities of Complicity,” The Times of London, 28 March 1996.