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Buys Up Book
Bonn (JTA) — Did the German
public at large willingly conspire
to help Hitler carry out the Hobo-
caust?
A book that answers this ques-
tion in the affirmative — Ameri-
can Jewish author Daniel Jonah
Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Ex-
ecutioners — has sold out its first
German edition of 40,000 copies
in less than a week and has
prompted a finny of debate here.
In many bookstores across
Germany, customers have been
confronted by television crews
asking buyers of Mr. Goldhagen's
book why they would purchase a
work that is so unflattering to-
ward the German people.
Some answered that they
wanted to know what the outside
world thought of them.
Others said they want to get a
chance to develop their own opin-
ions about the book, which has
been the subject of much discus-
sion in the German media.
For many Jews in Germany,
the book's value lies in the fact
that it tells non-Jewish Germans
that the Holocaust did not begin
in the gas chambers and was not
perpetrated solely by SS officials
in the death camps.
They point to Mr. Goldhagen's
suggestion that the persecution
began in schools, at the work-
place, in stores, at every street
corner — that it was committed
by millions of "simple" Germans
from every walk of life.
A first wave of largely negative
criticisms surfaced here and in
the United States immediately
after Mr. Goldhagen's book was
published in America.
Many German commentators
suggested at the time that Mr.
Goldhagen was merely repealing
the "collective guilt" thesis, which
is seen here as very unfair and
even dangerous.
Others criticized the book's re-
search methods.
With the German edition now
hitting the market, a new, inten-
sified wave of public debate is un-
der way, with almost daily
newspaper articles as well as ra-
dio and television commentaries.
The German weekly Die Zeit
drew a lot of criticism for pub-
lishing excerpts of the book in ad-
vance of publication.
But other publications soon
picked up the story.
Another weekly news-
magazine, Der Spiegel, devoted
a 20-page cover story to Mr. Gold-
hagen's book.
Der Spiegel roundly attacked
Mr. Goldhagen's thesis, finding
it absurd to believe that every
German who lived during the
Third Reich was intoxicated with
anti-Semitism and was, there-
fore, guilty of complicity in geno-
cide.
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