Holocaust book in new debate

BONN - A US scholar defended his book blaming ordinary Germans for willingly helping the Nazis murder millions of Jews as the…

BONN - A US scholar defended his book blaming ordinary Germans for willingly helping the Nazis murder millions of Jews as the German language edition sparked a fresh debate yesterday.

The Harvard sociologist, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, said critics of Hitler's Willing Executioners were wrong to dismiss his book.

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