Daniel Goldhagen

Daniel Goldhagen is an American author and former associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University, born in Boston on June 30, 1959. He is best known for his 1996 book Hitler's Willing Executioners, which argues that ordinary Germans participated willingly in the Holocaust due to deeply rooted eliminationist antisemitism in German culture. His subsequent works include A Moral Reckoning (2002), examining the Catholic Church's role in enabling the Holocaust, and Worse Than War (2009), analyzing genocide and eliminationism as global phenomena.