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American publisher Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 1996 work, Hitler's Eager Executioners, is one of the very most controversial history books of contemporary times. While most historians have sought to clarify the horror of the Holocaust by focusing on Nazi leaders and their ideologies, Goldhagen set out to investigate whether common Germans enthusiastically embraced their goals. His bottom line: "eliminationist anti-Semitism" - a genocidal hatred of Jews unique to Germany - triggered the Holocaust. Hitler's Eager Executioners topped best-seller lists in Britain, Germany, and America and acquired prestigious honours. But historians almost universally disagreed with Goldhagen's arguments, which ran counter to people of Christopher Browning in his 1992 book, Standard Men. Browning analyzed members of a police unit who carried out works of genocide and found that anyone else acted out of fear and because of this of peer pressure. A ferocious historical dispute raged between partisans of the two authors. This Goldhagen Controversy, as it became known, became one of many debates of the 1990s.
