* Daniel Goldhagen interview on Counterpoint Radio with Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis.

In a 1997 interview, Mommsen was quoted as saying about Goldhagen that :" Goldhagen does not understand much about the antisemitic

Finkelstein has published heavy criticisms of several books in his career, as he did to Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Johnah Goldhagen, which he calls " replete with gross misinterpretations of source material and internal contradictions ", and says " the book is devoid of scholarly value ".

Independently, Ruth Bettina Birn ( the world's leading authority on the archives that Goldhagen had consulted and chief historian for War Crimes with the Canadian Department of Justice ) did the same-she and Finkelstein worked together on A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth.

Goldhagen said that “ Mayer ’ s enormous intellectual error ” is in ascribing the cause of the Holocaust to anti-Communism, rather than to anti-Semitism, and criticized Prof. Mayer ’ s saying that most massacres of Jews in the USSR, during the first weeks of Operation Barbarossa ( 1941 ) in the summer of 1941, were committed by local peoples, with little Wehrmacht participation, and accused him of traducing the facts about the Wannsee Conference ( 1942 ), which was meant for plotting the genocide of European Jews, not ( as Mayer said ) merely the resettlement of the Jews.

* Interview with Daniel J. Goldhagen: Deterrence as the Only Prevention for Genocide

" Daniel Goldhagen recalled how Hitler had said “ To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil ...” and that, in Goldhagen's view, is what Hitler did in agreeing the Concordat with the Church.

Confronted with this accusation in 1971 by the historian Erich Goldhagen, who had discovered the text of the speech in the Federal German archives, Speer recollected that he had left the conference before Himmler's speech began.

The Canadian historian Fred Kautz called Wehler an anti-Semite for his attacks on Goldhagen Kautz wrote that " He doesn't dare say it openly that he thinks Goldhagen is incapable of writing about the Holocaust because he is a Jew ... It's flabbergasting what perverse ideas are dreamt up in the studies of German professors, where according to an ancient legend, one seeks the truth unperturbed, " sine ira et studio " (" with diligence and without anger "): the victims of history should not be allowed to write their own history!

Besides that, Goldhagen, while talking all the time about German antisemitism, omits the specific impact of the völkisch antisemitism as proclaimed by Houston Stuart Chamberlain and the Richard Wagner movement which directly influenced Hitler as well as the Nazi party.

In 1977, Goldhagen entered Harvard and remained there for some twenty years, first as an undergraduate and graduate student, then as an assistant professor in the Government and Social Studies Department.

Goldhagen ’ s first notable publication was the New Republic magazine book review “ False Witness ” ( 1989 ) of Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

In his 2003 book, A Moral Reckoning, Daniel Goldhagen, asserts that Pius XII " chose again and again not to mention the Jews publicly .... public statements by Pius XII ... any mention of the Jews is conspicuously absent.

Daniel Goldhagen, former Associate Professor of Political Science at Harvard University, also suggested in his book A Moral Reckoning that the Roman Catholic Church should change its doctrine and the accepted Biblical canon to excise statements he labels as antisemitic, to indicate that " The Jews ' way to God is as legitimate as the Christian way ".

According to Holocaust writer Daniel Goldhagen's review of the book in The New Republic, most of the people working in these camps were not Jewish and Goldhagen argued Sack did his best to conceal this.

In the book, Goldhagen acknowledges that individual bishops and priests hid and saved a large number of Jews, but also asserts that others promoted or accepted anti-Semitism before and during the war, and some played a direct role in the persecution of Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

However, Kershaw later went on to recommend Norman Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn's extremely critical assessment of Goldhagen's book, A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth ; stating that " Finkelstein and Birn provide a devastating critique of Daniel Goldhagen's simplistic and misleading interpretation of the Holocaust.

During the " Goldhagen Controversy " of 1996, Wehler was a leading critic of Daniel Goldhagen, especially in regards to the latter's claims in his book Hitler's Willing Executioners about an alleged culture of murderous German " eliminationist anti-Semitism ", though Wehler was more sympathetic towards Goldhagen's claims concerning the motives of Holocaust perpetrators.

Mommsen's friend, the British historian Sir Ian Kershaw wrote he thought that Mommsen had " destroyed " Goldhagen during their debates over Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners.

In the 1990s, Stern was a leading critic of the controversial American author Daniel Goldhagen, whose book Hitler's Willing Executioners Stern denounced as unscholarly and full of Germanophobia.

During the " Goldhagen Controversy " of 1996, Jäckel was a leading critic of Daniel Goldhagen, and wrote a very hostile book review in the Die Zeit newspaper in May 1996 that called Hitler's Willing Executioners " simply a bad book ".

Certainly, there was what he calls eliminationist antisemitism and its impact increased as the century matured ... But antisemitism came in different forms, and Goldhagen puts all antisemitism in the same basket, including the liberal type that wanted to see the Jews disappear by assimilation and conversion ... The vast majority of German antisemitics did not wish to abolish formal Jewish emancipation.

Goldhagen makes much of the radical antisemitism of the Conservative Party in Germany ; but in 1893 it obtained less than 10 percent of the votes, whereas the National Liberals, among whom there were a number of former Jews, were much more numerous.

Goldhagen further accused Mayer of obscurantism, of suppressing historical fact, and of being an apologist for Nazi Germany, like Ernst Nolte, for attempting to “ de-demonize ” National Socialism.

* Finkelstein, Norman G .. Ruth Bettina Birn, A nation on trial: the Goldhagen thesis and historical truth ( 1998 )

Though Kershaw had little positive to say about Goldhagen, he wrote that he felt that Norman Finkelstein attack on Goldhagen had been over-the-top and did little to help historical understanding.

Goldhagen has written that his " understanding of Nazism and of the Holocaust is firmly indebted " to his father's influence.

Bauer has criticized the work of the American political scientist Daniel Goldhagen, who writes that the Holocaust was the result of the allegedly unique “ eliminationist ” antisemitic culture of the Germans.

He has accused Goldhagen of Germanophobic racism, and of selecting only evidence favorable to his thesis.

Goldhagen in his turn has accused Bauer of not understanding his arguments properly and of being jealous of what Goldhagen considers to be his discovery of the “ key ” that explains the entire Holocaust.

In 2002, Goldhagen published A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, his account of the role of the Catholic Church before, during and after World War II.

Finkelstein examines the implications of applying this standard to another member of the " Holocaust Industry ", Daniel Goldhagen, who argued that Serbian actions in Kosovo " are, in their essence, different from those of Nazi Germany only in scale ".

During early graduate studies, he attended a lecture by Saul Friedländer, in which he had what he describes as a " lightbulb moment ": the functionalism versus intentionalism debate did not address the question, “ When Hitler ordered the annihilation of the Jews, why did people execute the order ?” Goldhagen wanted to investigate who were the German men and women who killed the Jews, and their reasons for killing.

During the " Goldhagen Controversy " of 1996, Kershaw took the view that his friend, Hans Mommsen, had " destroyed " Daniel Goldhagen's arguments about a culture of " eliminationist antisemitism " in Germany during their frequent debates on German TV.

David Rieff, characterizing Goldhagen as a " pro-Israel polemicist and amateur historian ", writes that the subtext of what Goldhagen deems " eliminationism " may be his own view of contemporary Islam.

Elie Wiesel supported Kosinski ; Israel Gutman and Daniel Goldhagen ( see below ) supported Wilkomirski ; Wiesel and Gutman support Goldhagen.

Goldhagen refused the journal's invitation for a full rebuttal, and instead enlisted a London law firm to sue Birn and the Cambridge University Press.

* Goldhagen, Daniel.

Goldhagen cited a November 1945 report that only 1. 7 % of the members of the Office of State Security were Jews as refutation of Sack's figure of 75 %.

"< ref > Bernd Nellessen, " Die schweigende Kirche: Katholiken und Judenverfolgung ," in Büttner ( ed ), < cite > Die Deutschen und die Judenverfolgung im Dritten Reich </ cite >, p. 265, cited in Daniel Goldhagen, < cite > Hitler's Willing Executioners </ cite > ( Vintage, 1997 ).</ ref > Diarmaid MacCulloch argued that Luther's 1543 pamphlet On the Jews and Their Lies was a " blueprint " for the Kristallnacht.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen ( 2012 ) celebrated the work of innovative architecture firms such as WOHA ( based in Singapore ), Mass Studies ( based in Seoul ), Amateur Architecture Studio ( based in Hangzhou ), and the New York City-based Steven Holl in the transformation of residential towers into " vertical communities " or " vertical cities in the sky " providing aesthetic, unusually-designed silhouettes on the skyline, comfortable private spaces and attractive public spaces.

* Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.

Daniel Goldhagen, Harvard scholar and author of the controversial Hitler's Willing Executioners, argues that philosemites are often closet anti-Semites.

He vehemently denies the thesis of Daniel Goldhagen about a general German complicity in Hitler's politics.

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ( born June 30, 1959 ) is an American author and former associate professor of political science and social studies at Harvard University.

Goldhagen was born June 30, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts to Erich and Norma Goldhagen.

As a graduate student, Goldhagen did research in the German archives.