He gained prominence in the field with the publication of 1996's Hitler's Willing Executioners, which met acclaim and controversy, particularly in Germany.

Much of the essay was a brilliant dissection of Goldhagen's book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners."

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.

When the English edition of Hitler's Willing Executioners was published in March 1996, numerous German reviews ensued.

Its impact may recall the controversy occasioned by the publication of Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners" in 1996.

Hitler's Willing Executioners marked a revisionist challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy surrounding the question of German public opinion and the "Final Solution".

Hitler's Willing Executioners.

Kershaw wrote that he agreed with Eberhard Jäckel's assessment that Hitler's Willing Executioners was "simply a bad book".

Mr. Goldhagen, an associate professor of governnment and social studies at Harvard, is the author of "Hitler's Willing Executioners."

And he focused far more on 20th-century events to explain the Holocaust than, say, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, whose 1996 book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners."