Robert talks to Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of the book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust." (Knopf). In the book, Goldhagen argues that anti-Semitism was pervasive in German society before the rise of the Third Reich which held that Jews were subhuman and responsible for damaging Germany. These beliefs allowed German citizens to view killing Jews as not morally repugnant and made them willing participants in the brutalities of the Holocaust.
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