 Goldhagen wrote the men of Battalion 101 felt "joy and triumph" after torturing and murdering Jews.Goldhagen used antisemitic statements by Cardinal Adolf Bertram as typical of what he called the Roman Catholic Church's support for genocide.Goldhagen was later to expand on what he sees as the Catholic Church's institutional antisemitism and support for the Nazi regime in "Hitler's Willing Executioners"'s sequel, 2002's "A Moral Reckoning".