Genocide: Worse Than War
Worse Than War documents Goldhagen’s journeys, teachings, and interviews in nine different countries, this journey provides an unprecedented look at insight and analysis.
With his first publication, the #1 bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Vintage, 1997), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, a professor of political science at Harvard, prompted the world to re-evaluate some of its most fundamental beliefs about the Holocaust.
The number of executions ordered by Hitler’s willing executioners inspired a global conversation and debate about the role ordinary Germans played in the extermination of Europe’s Jews.
A decade later, and more than half a century after the end of World War II, Goldhagen is convinced that the overall phenomenon of genocide is as poorly understood as the Holocaust was.
How and why do genocides begin? Why do the perpetrators murder? Why has intervention typically occurred late? These and other thought-provoking questions are discussed in the new documentary film Worse Than War.
