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	Daniel Goldhagen's Holocaust
		Goldhagen rightly deplores the fact that during the Nazi period the churches, Catholic and Protestant, did not officially condemn the extermination program or stand up for the rights of Jews.
		Goldhagen's claim that everybody knew what Hitler had in mind and later knew about the extermination underway is unsupported by evidence.
		Daniel Goldhagen, the relentless prosecutor, is not interested in understanding.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9608/articles/review_essay.html (3769 words)

	Daniel Goldhagen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goldhagen claims that this special mentality cannot be fully understood by non-Germans and is unique to Germany, where it grew out of medieval attitudes from a religious basis but was eventually secularised.
		Goldhagen's book, which began as his Harvard doctoral dissertation, was written largely to rebut the claims of Christopher Browning as to Germans motives.
		Goldhagen's acceptance speech, which has been understood to argue that such an end was at hand if not accomplished, is often therefore viewed as contradicting the case for the award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Goldhagen (1620 words)

	Daniel Goldhagen Speaker - Booking Keynote Speaker for Corporate, Meeting Event - Contact Daniel Goldhagen
		Daniel Goldhagen's new book and lecture theme, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair is a penetrating moral inquiry into the Catholic Church's role in the Holocaust that goes beyond anything previously written on the subject.
		Daniel Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust, transforming a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long-overdue investigation of the Church throughout Europe.
		Daniel Goldhagen explores this duty, analyzes the Church's tactics of evasion, and delineates all that the Church must do to undo the harm it inflicted on Jews and to heal itself.
	www.grabow.biz /printable_pages/DanielGoldhagen.htm (478 words)

	Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: a reply to Daniel Goldhagen.(Comment)(Critical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Goldhagen even tried to intimidate Birn, a Canadian war crimes investigator whose review in the Cambridge Historical Journal (1997) did the most to discredit his book, into publishing a retraction by threatening to sue her for libel.
		Goldhagen dismisses Pius XII's 1942 Christmas message, in which he condemned the treatment of "hundreds of thousands of persons who, without any fault on their own, sometimes only by reason of their nationality or race, are marked down for death or a progressive extinction," as vague and meaningless.
		Goldhagen is wrong when he asserts that the Pope "never privately instructed all European cardinals, bishops, priests, and nuns to do whatever they could to save Jews." Scores of witnesses have testified that they received instructions from the Pope and his top aides to help and to protect Jews.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-113525445.html (3085 words)

	Daniel Goldhagen: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born 1959) is an American political scientist most famous for his book, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Goldhagen claims that this special mentality cannot be fully understood by non-Germans and that it was unique to Germany; eliminationist anti-semitism grew out of medieval Middle Ages quick summary:
		Goldhagen himself seems to have realized that his theory offers a potential excuse for Holocaust crimes and repeatedly moralizes about how the men whose crimes he records were making evil choices.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/daniel_goldhagen.htm (1147 words)

	Krisis & Praxis » Book Review:Hitler’s Willing Executioners by Daniel J. Goldhagen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Goldhagen states his thesis with forceful clarity: “My explanation – which is new to the scholarly literature on the perpetrators – is that the perpetrators, ‘ordinary Germans,’ were animated by antisemitism, by a particular type of antisemitism that led them to conclude that the Jews ought to die.
		Goldhagen claims that “It can be said with certitude that never in the history of the Holocaust was a German, SS man or otherwise, killed, sent to a concentration camp, jailed or punished in any serious way for refusing to kill Jews.” The real killers were not fanatical Nazis from the infamous SS.
		In this regard, Goldhagen must be given credit for a down to earth reading of the Holocaust with his insistence on focusing on the beliefs and choices of the killers which render them responsible for their own evil.
	krisispraxis.ath.cx /archives/2006/07/book-reviewhitlers-willing-executioners-by-daniel-j-goldhagen (1817 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Daniel Goldhagen was a political science professor at Harvard for many years, teaching courses on a range of subjects, including European politics, democracy, and genocide.
		Daniel Jonah Goldhagen: The Catholic Church supported the persecution of the Jews because of the antisemitism that it had consecrated at the core of Christianity, namely that all Jews were guilty and cursed because of the death of Jesus.
		Daniel Jonah Goldhagen: This question often diverts attention from all the crimes and offenses that the Church was committing: spreading antisemitism, supporting race laws, being complicit in some countries in the mass murder itself.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/2002-11-25-goldhagen.htm (1929 words)

	The church and the Holocaust: Daniel Goldhagen's one-dimensional
		Although Goldhagen shrinks from the brutal force of his own argument--"I am not saying that the pope (Pius XII) and the clergy in general actively wanted the Jews to die"--the insinuation, its I read his long and remorseless indictment, is that in fact they did.
		Are not Christmas, asks Goldhagen, especially Catholics, taught to despise Jews on the basis of God's "unerring and infallible word?" It is useless for Christian apologists to defend their scriptures by attempting a specious distinction between anti-Judaism (the religious anti-Judaism of antiquity) and anti-Semitism.
		Goldhagen, who seems acquainted with only vestiges of biblical scholarship, apparently does not realize that the New Testament is largely a collection of Jewish writings.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-111616432.html (2320 words)

	NewsHour Online: Prof. Daniel Goldhagen
		DANIEL GOLDHAGEN: And it's the voluntary--the volunteerism of the killing operations which actually show that it wasn't that difficult to induce ordinary Germans to kill Jews, to slaughter Jewish men, women, and children.
		DANIEL GOLDHAGEN: Most of the existing theories about them are social psychological theories of one kind or another that assume that the people did not believe that the killing was right and they try to explain how people who were opposed to it could be brought to kill.
		DANIEL GOLDHAGEN: There were, of course, many German opponents of the regime, and even some Germans who--who dissented from the prevailing anti-semitic image of Jews and Germany, and who opposed the killing, of course; however, they were clearly a small minority.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/goldhagen.html (1789 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Nation On Trial : The Goldhagen Thesis And Historical Truth: Books: Norman G Finkelstein,Ruth Bettina Birn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Daniel Goldhagen is not on trial here or his book; he knows what he is about in it and these authros do not know this, blinded by a desire for fame in the coprridors of their institutions.
		According to Goldhagen, it is the ordinary Germans who were the most bestial in their brutality towards the Jews (and of course Goldhagen focuses conveniently only on the Jews, arguing that the Holocaust of the Jews was a unique historical event without precedent, indeed outside of time).
		But, then according to Goldhagen, this mass madness was magically to disappear with the end of the war and the defeat of Hitler; indeed, the modern Germans are the very champions of liberty courtesy of the reconstitution of their nation with the help of the Allied forces.
	www.amazon.ca /Nation-Trial-Goldhagen-Thesis-Historical/dp/0805058729 (2601 words)

	Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: a reply to Daniel Goldhagen.(Comment)(Critical Essay) - Modern Age - HighBeam Research
		Goldhagen even tried to intimidate Birn, a Canadian war crimes investigator whose review in the Cambridge Historical Journal (1997) did the most to discredit his book, into publishing a retraction by threatening to sue her for libel.
		Goldhagen dismisses Pius XII's 1942 Christmas message, in which he condemned the treatment of "hundreds of thousands of persons who, without any fault on their own, sometimes only by reason of their nationality or race, are marked down for death or a progressive extinction," as vague and meaningless.
		Goldhagen is wrong when he asserts that the Pope "never privately instructed all European cardinals, bishops, priests, and nuns to do whatever they could to save Jews." Scores of witnesses have testified that they received instructions from the Pope and his top aides to help and to protect Jews.
	highbeam.com /doc/1G1:113525445/Pope+Pius+XII+and+the+Holocaust:+a+... (2742 words)

	Michael Novak on Daniel Jonah Goldhagen & Pius XII on National Review Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Goldhagen puzzles over what the Church can mean when it says, "Church," in a way that is separate from the individual "sons and daughters of the Church," who include popes and bishops and priests, as well as laity.
		Had Goldhagen been content as a historian merely to assess both the pluses and the minuses of the moral life of Pius XII, and even if given his own preoccupations he had come down hard on the verdict that Pius XII was a wicked man, he would not be liable to the charge of bigotry.
		Goldhagen went over the top in disqualifying Catholics from any moral standing, so long as they hold to Catholic faith as it is. He wants a new type of Catholicism to supersede the old.
	www.nationalreview.com /contributors/novak012802.shtml (2386 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
		Goldhagen sets out to refute the "Jews as scapegoats" theory with which many social scientists have explained antisemitism in the Weimar Republic.
		In her memoir, which is quoted by Goldhagen, Melita Maschmann recalls that during the 1930s "one could have anti-semitic opinions without this interfering in one's personal relations with individual Jews" [p.
		The Germans, in Goldhagen's view, were not amoral but acted in accordance with a specific system of morality peculiar to their culture.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679772682&view=rg (680 words)

	Anti-Defamation Forum (english) \| The Globe \| Daniel Goldhagen : Europe and Political Islam
		Goldhagen claimed that the examples of the Pope and the cartoons had shown clearly that the target of political Islam is not merely the state of Israel but the West as a whole.
		Goldhagen stressed that not all young Muslims should be seen as a fifth column but also stressed that the young radicals of political Islam certainly view themselves as such.
		Once again Goldhagen drew on his studies of National Socialism and other genocidal regimes and said that if a regime states its aims then must be taken seriously because once aims and opportunity come together then genocidal regimes tend to keep their promises.
	www.adf-berlin.de /wbblite/thread.php?threadid=105 (1344 words)

	Goldhagen in Germany
		Goldhagen calls this phenomenon "eliminatory" antisemitism, a term which is supposed to describe a uniquely German attitude that was pervasive in German society beginning in the 19th century and led to the popularity of the Nazi measures to eliminate the Jews.
		Goldhagen claims that his explanation of the Holocaust from a combination of a uniquely German antisemitic mentality and a deficient national identity is highly innovative although it was first advanced fifty years ago and has been a popular assumption outside of Germany ever since.
		Daniel Goldhagen responded to this praise by praising the Germans in turn for an exceptional and even paradigmatic achievement of objectivity in their dealing with the past.
	www.bu.edu /mzank/Michael_Zank/gold.html (10192 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Goldhagen v. Pius XII
		Goldhagen also misidentifies the role of Vatican official Peter Gumpel (who is the relator or judge, not the postulator or promoter, of Pius XII's cause for sainthood), and he is wrong to say that Gumpel was designated by the Vatican to represent it at a meeting with the recently disbanded Catholic-Jewish study group.
		Goldhagen's efforts to trivialize and diminish Pope Pius XII's famous 1942 Christmas statement and its clear denunciation of Nazi ideology are representative of the one-sided, biased approach that permeates his work.
		Goldhagen expands this to say that, "there is no evidence of the Pope's guiding hand." The identical argument is used by Holocaust deniers to absolve Hitler of responsibility for the death of six million Jews.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4479 (12665 words)

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		For the purposes of his presentation, Goldhagen organized his thesis into three major points: (a) "exterminationist antisemitism" was a "cultural norm" in Germany already by the late nineteenth century; (b) the perpetrators all shared a Hitlerian view of the Jews; (c) most German citizens shared this view as well.
		Goldhagen's lack of comparative research was problematic not only in terms of other secondary material, according to Bauer, but also in terms of his very thesis.
		Goldhagen, he said, should not be held responsible for this shoddy work, in particular for its lack of a comparative focus.
	www.h-net.org /~german/discuss/goldhagen/gold5.html (2423 words)

	Another Reckoning
		The culmination is Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s hate-filled A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair.
		Goldhagen condemns Catholic author and official Eugene Fisher at one point, while citing his work as authoritative elsewhere, and in a third place he absolutely praises the document Reflections on Covenant and Mission, in which Fisher had a significant hand.
		Goldhagen is asking the Church to abandon Scripture, turn from Christ as Savior, and deny all that Christians have held to be true—all because he’s offended.
	www.crisismagazine.com /january2003/feature1.htm (3771 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
		Goldhagen sets out to refute the "Jews as scapegoats" theory with which many social scientists have explained antisemitism in the Weimar Republic.
		In her memoir, which is quoted by Goldhagen, Melita Maschmann recalls that during the 1930s "one could have anti-semitic opinions without this interfering in one's personal relations with individual Jews" [p.
		The Germans, in Goldhagen's view, were not amoral but acted in accordance with a specific system of morality peculiar to their culture.
	randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679772685&view=rg (1006 words)

	Liberal Lies and the War Against Religion
		Goldhagen makes much of the Church signing a Concordat with the German government in 1933, but again he never once mentions that the Church tried to reach concordats with many other governments — including Bolshevik Russia.
		Perhaps Goldhagen never heard of what happened to the Church in Bolshevik Mexico (where it was outlawed and persecuted), in Bolshevik Russia (ditto, and where every Catholic bishop and 200,000 of the faithful simply disappeared), and in Republican Spain in the decades before World War II.
		But Goldhagen is stronger on making remarkable condemnations and a plethora of fiery rhetorical questions than he is at engaging the more sober accumulation of facts and documents that argue against him.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig2/crocker3.html (813 words)

	Goldhagen's Willing Executioners - The attack on a scholarly superstar, and how he fights back. By Adam Shatz
		Goldhagen promptly denounced Finkelstein as a supporter of Hamas, a radical Islamic Palestinian group.
		Goldhagen accused her of having defamed him in her Historical Journal article, then assembled a team of lawyers in Britain to demand a retraction and an apology.
		"Goldhagen seems to have difficulty comprehending that when perpetrators claim to have been motivated by Nazi propaganda, it need not be sincere," she writes.
	www.slate.com /id/3143 (2546 words)

	Goldhagen v. Pius XII
		Goldhagen also misidentifies the role of Vatican official Peter Gumpel (who is the relator or judge, not the postulator or promoter, of Pius XII’s cause for sainthood), and he is wrong to say that Gumpel was designated by the Vatican to represent it at a meeting with the recently disbanded Catholic-Jewish study group.
		Goldhagen’s efforts to trivialize and diminish Pope Pius XII’s famous 1942 Christmas statement and its clear denunciation of Nazi ideology are representative of the one-sided, biased approach that permeates his work.
		Goldhagen expands this to say that “there is no evidence of the Pope’s guiding hand.” The identical argument is used by Holocaust deniers to absolve Hitler of responsibility for the death of six million Jews.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/facts/fm0015.html (12741 words)

	Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State
		Goldhagen’s recipe for “moral reckoning” in this area is for Catholics, first, to renounce the doctrine of papal infallibility, and to acknowledge that its “authoritarian structure and culture, undergirded by the infallibility doctrine, is inherently dishonest.” Second, the Church must “cease to be a political institution” and abdicate its rule over the Vatican city state.
		Goldhagen, as a Jew, has every right as a free man to reject all such teachings about the Crucifixion, and every right to state his own belief in their error in a scholarly text on the subject.
		Goldhagen, for all his moral outrage at one of the most criminal treatments of any religious group or people known to history, openly encourages the suppression of Catholic teachings, Catholic symbols, and even Catholic autonomy from the world’s political powers as it is entailed by the existence of the Vatican city state.
	www.catholicleague.org /research/goldhagen.htm (1303 words)

	History as Bigotry Daniel Goldhagen slanders the Catholic Church
		Goldhagen's efforts to portray Pacelli as a man whose whole life was fueled by anti-Semitism are made possible only by his ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
		Goldhagen's book conspicuously lacks any discussion of Castel Gandolfo, which enjoys a unique place in the annals of Jewish rescue (and Catholic rescuers) during the Holocaust: In no other site in all of Nazi-occupied Europe were as many Jews saved and sheltered for as long a period.
		Though Goldhagen begrudgingly acknowledges John Paul II's extraordinary efforts to bring Catholics and Jews closer together, he immediately takes this praise back and ultimately contradicts himself entirely by accusing John Paul II of tolerating "anti-Semitic libels and hatreds" during his visit to Syria in the spring of 2001.
	www.catholicleague.org /research/history_as_bigotry.htm (2196 words)

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