Unwilling GermansA comprehensive overview of the controversy surrounding Hitlers Willing Executioners. Few if any books of the past fifty years have moved a broad section of the German public to think about their countrys Nazi past as has Daniel Jonah Goldhagens Hitlers Willing Executioners. The main argument of his book is that Germans committed the unthinkable acts of the Holocaust not because they were forced to but out of a deeply held conviction that killing Jews