Norman J. W. Goda (born April 25,1961)[1] is an American historian specialised in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is a professor of history at the University of Florida,where he is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies.[2]
Reviewing the book in the journal History,the historian Steven Casey called the book "remarkable" and noted that book "sheds new light on three controversial aspects of the war and post-war period:" how much US intelligence organisations knew about the Holocaust,the crimes of individual Nazi perpetrators,and the "extent to which US intelligence knowingly collaborated with war criminals during the cold war." Casey noted:[4]
Breitman et al. have used these [declassified documents] to write a series of measured case studies,which,unsurprisingly,confirm that many post-war exculpatory accounts by leading Nazis were highly misleading. Indeed,whereas figures such as SD Intelligence Chief Walter Schellenberg sought to depict themselves as reluctant Nazis who had tried their best to save the lives of concentration camp victims or to bring the war to a swift conclusion,the new documents confirm that they were actually ruthless individuals who not only had plenty of blood on their hands but also remained wedded if not to the Nazi cause then at least to their Nazi comrades long after May 1945.
Political views
Goda has denied that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza,and said accusing Israel of genocide is a "libel" that uses "antisemitic tropes" including showing images of “the deliberate killing of children”.[5][6] Historian Omer Bartov criticized Goda for saying that it is antisemitic to show photos of dead Palestinian children.[7]
He also argued,in 2025,that "starvation was never a problem in Gaza",and that Israel's blockade of Gaza was "legitimate".[5] In an interview with The New Yorker,Goda claimed that images of starving children in Gaza were "staged";but after pushback from the interviewer,Goda said he wasn't denying some Palestinians had died of starvation.[8]
Bibliography
Goda, Norman J. W. (1998). Tomorrow the world: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the path toward America. Texas A & M University military history series (1sted.). College Station: Texas A & M University Press. ISBN978-0-89096-807-9.
Goda, Norman J. W. (2007). Tales from Spandau: Nazi criminals and the Cold War. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-86720-7.
Kreike, Emmanuel; Jordan, William Chester (2004). Corrupt histories. Studies in comparative history. Rochester (N.Y.): University of Rochester Press. ISBN978-1-58046-173-3.
Goda, Norman J. W.; Bartov, Omer, eds. (2014). Jewish histories of the Holocaust: new transnational approaches. Making sense of history. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN978-1-78238-441-0.
Goda, Norman J. W. (2022). The Holocaust: Europe, the world, and the Jews, 1918-1945 (Seconded.). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN978-1-138-32154-0.
References
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