 Some of his critics have agreed with him that his thesis is "not intrinsically racist or otherwise illegitimate", including Ruth Bettina Birn and Norman Finkelstein "(A Nation on Trial)".When the English edition of "Hitler's Willing Executioners" was published in March 1996, numerous German reviews ensued.In April 1996, before the book had appeared in German translation, "Der Spiegel" ran a cover story on "Hitler's Willing Executioners" under the title "Ein Volk von Dämonen?