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Right: Taking issue with scholars like Daniel Goldhagen,
who blames the Holocaust on a long tradition of
German "eliminationist" anti-Semitism, CMU
Professor Eric A. Johnson asserts that while the
Germans' silence about the Holocaust was
"deplorable," it was "in some ways understandable ...
More than from active anti-Semitism, the silence
resulted from a lack of moral concern about the
fate of those ... perceived as outsiders and from
a tradition of obsequious submission to authority"

Below: Krefeld Synagogue burns on the Peterstrasse during
the "Night of Broken Glass," Nov. 9-10, 1938.

The Gestapo's selected terror.

targeted enemies of the

Nazi regime depended on

the cooperation and

voluntary participation of

ordinary German citizens,

asserts CMU Professor Eric

M. Johnson in a new book.

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