 In Germany, the leftist general public's insistence on further penitence prevailed, according to most observers.American historian Gordon A. Craig and "Der Spiegel" have argued that whatever the book's flaws, it should be welcomed because it will reinvigorate the debate on the Holocaust and stimulate new scholarship.In May 1996, Goldhagen was interviewed about "Hitler's Willing Executioners" by the American journalist Ron Rosenbaum.