Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Joins History Makers Lineup

TORONTO: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of the international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, has been named as keynote speaker at the 2010 History Makers Conference, being held in New York City from January 27 to 29.

Goldhagen will discuss his most recent work, Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity. The themes explored in Worse Than War are the basis of a feature-length documentary of the same name, produced by JTN Productions and WNET. The film follows Goldhagen as he travels around the world to interview survivors of genocide, and also the perpetrators and politicians involved.

With his keynote, Goldhagen says he will, “explain how we have thoroughly misunderstood what genocide is and why it happens, illuminate why the killers killed, and, based on this new understanding, propose a set of new policies that would be sure to radically reduce the incidence of mass killing, saving potentially millions of lives. My work and my talk are devoted to making the phrase ‘never again’ finally mean it for everyone.”