ABSTRACT
Professor Goldhagen has traveled extensively in Germany and Britain on promotional tours, with Holland, France, and Italy coming up. He has made many appearances on television, radio, and an entire symposium, held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was dedicated to the book. One such fortunate academic is Daniel Goldhagen, a thirty-eight-year-old Harvard political scientist whose book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust was published by a commercial press, Alfred A. Knopf. Goldhagen’s answer is that the “how” can be answered quite simply: they were all Germans. Their culture was imbued with anti-Semitism. The sharp difference between the public reaction to Goldhagen’s book and the scholarly reaction was most dramatically highlighted at a public symposium held in April 1996 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. A funny thing happened on the way to Goldhagen’s German execution, however.
