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BACK in September 2006, in my column in the New Straits Times, I wrote on the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
It was a disturbing read. His contention was that those responsible for the extermination of Jews were not just Nazi party members or SS men but “ordinary Germans of all walks of life, men (and women) who brutalised and murdered Jews both willingly and zealously”.
Blaming the entire German populace as complicit to one of the worst atrocities ever inflicted upon any particular race is, to say the least, shocking.
Goldhagen’s book fuelled a massive debate both in Germany and the United States. Historians were divided. Some hailed it as a monumental work, others lambasted it as nothing more than an attention grabber. One prominent Holocaust scholar found the contention “totally wrong”.