omethrough in his work. His blanket condemnation of all of German society seemsalmost childish. Goldhagen has prepared a excellently edited manuscript. His dissertationwas awarded the American Political Science Associations 1994 Gabriel A.Almond Award for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics.Goldhagen has spent ample time in covering his work for spelling, grammaticaland punctuation errors. No glaring errors came to my attention. His footnotesare equally accurate and adequate. The note section alone is 130 pages, andin this section he expands the readers familiarity with the subject at hand. Goldhagen also has spent ample time in writing appendixes to assist thereader. I particularly found the Appendix 2:Schematization of the DominantBeliefs in Germany very interesting. Goldhagens Table of Contents, and Indexare also sufficient.In conclusion, Hitlers Willing Executioners is a well written book,however I find fault with the authors thesis. Goldhagen constantly andrepeatedly asks Why did the Nazis treat the Jews so terribly? This questionseems to be naive for a scholar of Goldhagens caliber. I also find fault with hisindictment of all of German society. I realize the German peoples complicitywas required in order to enact an efficient system of genocide, but I cannot notagree with the notion that the Nazis simply provided an outlet by which ordinaryGermans were allowed to act on their evil desires. The vast majority of theGerman people were not willing executioners. However, these people wereguilty for failing to protest Hitlers murderous intentions and policies while therewas still time, and for this, they should be ashamed. ...
