50 Must-Read 50 Beta
← The Must-Read 50
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Modern · History, Nonfiction, Holocaust

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

by Daniel Goldhagen
1996 · 728 pages · Nonfiction
9 Modern ★ 3.71 on Goodreads · 5K ratings
Reserve shelf
≈ 18 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

NBCC Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1996). 3.71★ from 5K Goodreads ratings.

By the numbers

9Must-Read Score
  • Readers2 out of 100 · counts 40%+1
  • Critics24 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+8
  • Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
  • Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0

Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.

On our reserve shelf: it hasn't collected enough Goodreads ratings yet for us to rank it alongside the Must-Read 50 pool. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

Shortlisted

Reads as

True story

How we rank

Already read it? Upload your Goodreads or StoryGraph history and get the 50 best books you haven't read, tuned to your taste.Get my 50

If you like this, read next

Between the World and Me
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew Desmond
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationIsabel Wilkerson
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandPatrick Radden Keefe
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha Mukherjee
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaBarbara Demick