CAS WR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Daniel Goldhagen, Antisemitism
28 Dec 2015
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Goldhagen blames hitlerism, german antisemitism caused the german people to be willing to kill. The way germany killed the jews was unique: antisemitism is deeply rooted in german culture, in military history, men were usually sorted out to be killed and women. Goldhagen is trying to argue that being german basically meant to not and children were preserved germany did the opposite like jews. Problems with goldhagen"s theory: one problem with his theory is that he generalizes all germans, another problem is that other minorities were victims, and goldhagen only focuses on jews. Every jew was a victim, but not all victims were jews . In eastern europe, when towns heard the germans were coming to slaughter their jews, they would kill them first to be able to steal the jews stuf. Nazis also had an overwhelming fear of communism. Eventually this fear was put into propaganda to link judaism and.
