In 1996 , the American historian David Schoenbaum wrote a highly critical book review in the '' National Review '' of '' Hitler 's Willing Executioners '' where he charged Goldhagen with grossly simplifying the question of the degree and virulence of German Antisemitism , and of only selecting evidence that supported his thesis . Furthermore , Schoenbaum complained that Goldhagen did not take a comparative approach with Germany placed in isolation , thereby falsely implying that Germans and Germans alone were the only nation that saw widespread antisemitism . Finally , Schoenbaum argued that Goldhagen failed to explain why the anti-Jewish boycott of April 1 , 1933 , was relatively ineffective or why the '' Kristallnacht '' needed to be organized by the Nazis as opposed to being a spontaneous expression of German popular antisemitism . Using an example from his family history , Schoenbaum wrote that his mother in law , a Polish Jew who lived in Germany between 1928 – 47 never considered the National Socialists and the Germans synonymous , and expressed regret that Goldhagen could not see the same
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