 Daniel Goldhagen - Hailed as "a monumental
achievement" by the Sunday Times of London, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's bestseller
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust may
have generated more international discussion than any book in recent history. By
studying the Germans who carried out the Holocaust, Dr. Daniel Goldhagen
provides new answers to the question: "How could the Holocaust happen?" Daniel
Goldhagen is a spellbinding, natural speaker who conveys complex thoughts and
answers questions with clarity, authority and directness. Audiences
internationally have listened with rare attentiveness and absolute concentration
as Dr. Daniel Goldhagen extemporaneously unfolds before them the issues central
to understanding the Holocaust.
Dr. Daniel Goldhagen's new book and lecture theme, A Moral
Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled
Duty of Repair is a penetrating moral inquiry into the Catholic Church's
role in the Holocaust that goes beyond anything previously written on the
subject. Dr. Daniel Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay
out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust,
transforming a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long-overdue
investigation of the Church throughout Europe. He shows that the Church's
and the Pope's complicity in the persecution of the Jews goes much deeper than
has been previously understood. The Church's leaders were fully aware of the
persecution. They did not speak out and urge resistance. Instead, they supported
many aspects of it. Some clergy even took part in the mass murder. But Dr.
Daniel Goldhagen goes further. He develops a precise way for assessing the
Church and its clergy's culpability, which was more extensive and varied than
has been supposed. He then devotes the largest part of the book to proposing a
new and fuller understanding of restitution, including moral restitution, and
shows that the Church has, even according to its own doctrine, an unacknowledged
duty of repair. Daniel Goldhagen explores this duty, analyzes the Church's
tactics of evasion, and delineates all that the Church must do to undo the harm
it inflicted on Jews and to heal itself. Brilliantly researched and reasoned,
A Moral Reckoning is a pathbreaking book of profound, and far-reaching,
importance.
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