Since the publication of Daniel Goldhagen&rsquos controversial Hitler&rsquos Willing Executioners there has been a renewed and vigorous debate on how deep and widespread antisemitism was in German society. This volume brings together some of the best known scholars in the field to analyze, on the basis of new evidence from East European archives, not only Nazi anti-Jewish policies but also the attitudes of Germany&rsquos elites, the churches, workers, and "ordinary Germans." There have been many responses to Goldhagen&rsquos hypothesis concerning the pervasiveness of a radical antisemitism. This book contains the most comprehensive and carefully substantiated assessment to date. From the Contents: Party and State Antisemitic Policy—The Policy of Expropriation—Popular Attitudes to Nazi Antisemitism in Wartime—Jewish Society under the Nazi System—The Response of the Churches—Responses of German Resistance—Responses of Bystanders. David Bankier teaches at the Hebrew University and is a member of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem and of the academic committee of Yad Vashem.