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Daniel Goldhagen biography

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is an American author and scholar who taught political science and social studies for many years at Harvard University before becoming a full-time writer. His work focuses on the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide and moral responsibility. He was awarded Germany’s Democracy Prize for Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust was published in paperback on 28 January 1997. In the book, Goldhagen examines the role of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust and argues that “eliminationist anti-Semitism” helped make the persecution and murder of European Jews possible.

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair was published by Vintage on 30 December 2003. In this book, Goldhagen examines the Catholic Church, the Holocaust, culpability and the question of repair after harm done to Jews.

Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity was published by PublicAffairs on 6 October 2009. The book explores genocide, why genocides begin, why they continue, why societies support them and how the international community might stop them.

The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism was published by Little, Brown and Company on 3 September 2013. In this work, Goldhagen examines global antisemitism, its use by states, its appeal to individuals and groups, and the role of technology in spreading it.