National socialism - Moral and ethical aspects. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen 3.6 (14) Paperback (Reprint) 20.00 Paperback 20.00 eBook 15. Moral and ethical aspects of National socialism, Hitler's Willing Executioners Hitler's Willing Executioners 91 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Germans' antisemitic beliefs about Jews were the central causal agent of the Holocaust. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly.
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Walter Kaufmann lambasted this translation in the 1950s for two reasons: first, the failure of the English prefix "super" to capture the nuance of the German über (though in Latin, its meaning of "above" or "beyond" is closer to the German) and second, for promoting misidentification of Nietzsche's concept with the comic-book character Superman. In 1909, Thomas Common translated it as "Superman", following the terminology of George Bernard Shaw's 1903 stage play Man and Superman. In 1896, Alexander Tille made the first English translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, rendering Übermensch as "Beyond-Man". The Übermensch represents a shift from otherworldly Christian values and manifests the grounded human ideal. In his 1883 book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( German: Also sprach Zarathustra), Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself. "Overhuman") is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. 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