Daniel Goldhagen

In Doris Bergen’s book, “War and Genocide,” she explains how the Holocaust happened in terms of how a house burns down. “Three things are required,” she writes; kindling, a spark to start the fire, and complying weather. In terms of the Holocaust, deeply seeded antisemitism, Nazism, and a public of bystanders and followers respectively. Most historians agree on these three implementing factors, however historians still tend to have differing opinions about the individuals who caused the Holocaust. Christopher Browning and Daniel J. Goldhagen are an example of this: Two historians, each of whom studied and used the same sources to form differing opinions on the mentality of the men who killed innocent people. Where Browning favors that the killers…

His soldiers accommodated to his hand and foot whenever he called them. In Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Goldhagen explained the duties Hitler asked the guards to do. They were forced to take away the identity of the millions of people who were just like them, but believed in different things. Goldhagen wrote that the German police must “ turn the Jews into ‘socially dead’ beings.” No human being should have to suffer through being mistreated and beaten, nor should they have to live…

The American writer, Daniel Goldhagen and his book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust supports the view that the German people also had a part in being responsible for the Holocaust along with Hitler himself. He argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were “willing executioners” in the Holocaust due to a “eliminationist anti-Semitism” in the German political culture which had developed in past centuries. In Hitler’s Willing Executioners Goldhagen argued…

Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, pg 239-262. The book of Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners published in 1996, reflecting some an issue that concerned many Germans. This about the predators of the Holocaust, including groups and individuals who made the major decisions establishing the policy of extermination the Jewish people under Nazi regime, executed and supported it. The author illustrates to the role of anti-Semitic ideology that led the "ordinary" Germans…

In a bloody battle with Necho’s Egyptian army in 605 BC, Prince Nebuchadnezzar the son of Nabopolassar, pushed the Egyptian army back across the river and claimed Judah to Babylon. After Nebuchadnezzar departed back to his homeland to ascend to the throne, Judah began to revolt against the Babylonian rule which called for the now King to return to suppress the trouble. Upon his return the King had completed many projects to remind Judah of whom their king was. One of the projects was to take…

Introduction In 605 B.C during Jehoiakim’s reign, the Babylonian’s king Nebuchadnezzar took Daniel and his friends as captives when he besieged Jerusalem. Daniel was taken captive because he fit in the standards, which the king was searching for: young men, good-looking and smart. During the time of captivity, Daniel, the author of the book of the Bible with the same name , writes about the dreams, visions and situations he passed in the course of the captivity. Indeed Daniel’s actions…

The perception of our emotions, and the world we live in isn’t all that it seems. Daniel Gilbert, a professor of social psychology at Harvard has an inquisitive view of the relationship between perceived happiness, and reality. In the chapter “Immune to Reality” from his book Stumbling on Happiness, Gilbert reasons that our psychological immune system causes us to be self-deceiving and as a result, causing us to have the tendency to cook the facts of situations that can affect our happiness.…

Kahneman and Tversky developed the Prospect Theory to describe how people choose different choices that involve risk, knowing the probable outcomes. This demonstrates the way a person feels toward taking risks that involve positive outcomes is very different from the way a person feels toward risks that involve a negative outcome. The decision a person makes reflects on their judgement which can be heavy considering the conditions of uncertainty. For example, if people had a choice of: a) 100%…

We are all Human Throughout life, humans go through an endless journey called life. And in that life span one must overcome several challenges live throws at you. Since we cannot tell the future, the obstacles that we face might end up changing our whole lives. In the memoir, Hodgman shows us that even though we are different in our own way, we can still relate to someone who might face the same challenges as we. Furthermore, one way that I can relate to Mr. Hodgman is that in the way he…

‘Flowers for Algernon,' written in 1958, by Daniel Keyes is a short science fiction story about a mentally disabled protagonist called Charlie Gordon. Charlie, who is a 37-year-old man, due to his eagerness to learn, receives the opportunity to increase his intelligence through an experimental surgery. Following the experimental process, Daniel Keyes uses the techniques of the juxtaposition of events such as the thematic apperception test, as well as changes his writing style’s literacy skills…