NP Willing Executioners?

[Bekah]

At 9:52 AM +1000 9/24/05, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>
>It isn't a numbers game at all. Goldhagen is saying is that, had 
>they known about it, "ordinary" Germans of the time, and he means 
>all of them, would have applauded and assisted in the persecution 
>and murder of the Jews, just the same as those who were carrying out 
>the killings. His overarching thesis is that anti-Semitism was a 
>"cognitive map" shared by all Germans at the time. He's proffering a 
>racial explanation, offering a simple and simplistic cause and 
>effect hypothesis: the Shoah happened because *all* Germans were 
>racially and culturally predisposed to exterminationist 
>anti-Semitism.
>
>It's not correct.



And what that hypothesis also does is render Hitler a puppet which, 
if you look at the use of violence in his rise to power as well as 
his manipulation with international  "negotiations"  is also 
obviously not correct.

Bekah