How long does it take to read Hitler's Willing Executioners?
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen takes about 11 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 645 pages, about 177,375 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. - Publisher.
Subjects: Antisemitism, Antisemitismo, Aspectos éticos y morales, Causas, Causes, Criminales de guerra
