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Entry: Willing Executioners?--The Holocaust, Germans, and Collective Guilt Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/willing_executioners_the_holocaust_germans_and_collective_guilt#28676 Post contents: Professor deZayas's investigation of this matter, as far as I can tell, is based on scrupulous research, and matches the testimony of Helmut Schmidt, a Social Democrat of Jewish ancestry, and the diaries of a World War Two Jewish professor who survived the war in Dresden. Such testimonies suggest that most German Christians were far from virulent anti-Semites and had only a vague knowledge of Hitler's Endloesung. It is also ridiculous to think that a population being bombed from pillar to post, and one fighting a two front war, would have had the energy or time to be interested in what Nazi fanatics were doing to Jews in concentration camps. Goldhagen's picture of German Christians running to assist Hitler in the killing of German Jews borders on the surreal. It is also a treasured image in today's Germany, a place in which national self-hatred has been elevated to a national cult. Sent at: 2008 12 02