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Books like Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
The best books like Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is about the holocaust, antisemitism, perpetrators. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · Science
Behave is Robert Sapolsky's attempt to explain why humans do what they do — the violence, the altruism, the tribalism, the heroism — by working through every layer of biology that contributes to a single act.
A kindred history read.
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- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning · History
Ordinary Men is Christopher Browning's study of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of middle-aged German men — not hardened SS officers but Hamburg policemen with civilian lives and families — who between 1942 and 1943 shot approximately 38,000 Jewish men, women, and children in occupied Poland and deported another 45,000 to the Treblinka death camp.
Shares the holocaust and perpetrators with Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.
Read the summary → - Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Timothy Snyder · History
Black Earth is Timothy Snyder's reinterpretation of the Holocaust that places it in an ecological and political framework rather than a strictly ideological one.
Both dig into the holocaust.
Read the summary → - The Anatomy of Fascism
- The Captive Mind
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Czesław Miłosz · History
The Captive Mind is Czesław Miłosz's study of how intellectuals living under Soviet-imposed communism in postwar Eastern Europe came to accommodate, justify, and eventually internalize the ideology they had initially resisted.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The Cold War: A New History
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John Lewis Gaddis · History
John Lewis Gaddis wrote The Cold War: A New History as a short, synthetic account of the entire superpower conflict, from the end of World War II through the Soviet collapse in 1991.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · History
Published in 1848 on the eve of a wave of European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a short political pamphlet that has shaped more history than almost any other document of its length.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The End of History and the Last Man
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The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama · History
Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man was published in 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the apparent triumph of liberal democracy as the world's dominant political model.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · History
Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, just six years after the end of World War II.
Both dig into antisemitism.
Read the summary → - The Finkler Question
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Howard Jacobson · Literary fiction
The Finkler Question opens with Julian Treslove, a failed actor turned celebrity lookalike, being mugged by a woman who he believes calls him a Jew as she flees.
Both dig into antisemitism.
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Books like Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust: quick answers
What are the best books like Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust?
The best books like Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, such as the holocaust, antisemitism, perpetrators.
What should I read after Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust?
A natural next read after Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning.
What books are similar to Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen?
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust centers on the holocaust, antisemitism, perpetrators. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder, The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
