Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-601) and index.

Recasting the view of antisemitism : a framework for analysis -- The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany -- Eliminationist antisemitism : the "common sense" of German society during the Nazi period -- The Nazis' assault on the Jews : its character and evolution -- The agents and machinery of destruction -- Police battalions : agents of genocide -- Police Battalion 101 : the men's deeds -- Police battalion 101 : assessing the men's motives -- Police battalions : lives, killings, and motives -- The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period -- Life in the "work" camps -- Work and death -- The deadly way -- Marching to what end? -- Explaining the perpetrators' actions : assessing the competing explanations -- Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation.