Unwilling Germans? : the Goldhagen debate / edited by Robert R. Shandley ; with essays translated by Jeremiah Riemer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A provocation to a new Historikerstreit / Volker Ullrich -- A people of "final solutionists"? Daniel Goldhagen dresses an old thesis in new robes / Norbert Frei -- Hitler's code : Holocaust from Faustian aspirations? / Frank Schirrmacher -- The sociologist as hanging judge / Rudolf Augstein -- Sisyphus is a German / Jost Nolte -- Ordinary men or ordinary Germans / Christopher R. Browning -- A people of willing Jew murderers? / Michael Wolffsohn -- From character assassination to mass murder / Julius H. Schoeps -- The murder of Jews as a societal project / Walter Manoschek -- Simply a bad book / Eberhard Jäckel -- Like a thorn in the flesh / Hans-Ulrich Wehler -- The mentality of the perpetrators / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey -- The right question / Ulrich Herbert -- Familiar tones / Volker Ullrich -- Discomposure in history's final resting place / Andrei S. Markovits -- The failure of the critics / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen -- What were the murderers thinking? Interview with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen / Rudolf Augstein -- On the broad trail of the German perpetrators / Kurt Pätzold -- The universe of death and torment / Götz Aly -- Burdens of proof / Jeremiah M. Riemer -- The thin patina of civilization : anti-semitism was a necessary, but by no means a sufficient, condition for the holocaust / Hans Mommsen -- A triumphal procession : Goldhagen and the Germans / Volker Ullrich -- Why Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book is misleading / Marion Gräfin Dönhoff -- A moral judgement / Robert Leicht -- Killing for desire : interview with Klaus Theweleit / Mechtild Blum and Wolfgang Storz -- "The killers were ordinary Germans, ergo the ordinary Germans were killers" : the logic, the language, and the meaning of a book that conquered Germany / Josef Joffe -- The Jewish hanging judge? Goldhagen and the "self-confident nation" / Wolfgang Wippermann -- Turning away from denial : Hitler's willing executioners as a counterforce to "historical explanation" / Jan Philipp Reemtsma -- Goldhagen and the public use of history : why a democracy prize for Daniel Goldhagen? / Jürgen Habermas -- Modell bundesrepublik : national history, democracy, and internationalization in Germany / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.