 Common complaints suggest that Goldhagen's primary hypothesis is either "oversimplified", or represents "a bizarre inversion of the Nazi view of the Jews" turned back upon the Germans.One German commentator suggested that Goldhagen's book "pushes us again and again headfirst into the nasty anti-Semitic mud.This is his revenge..." Eberhard Jäckel wrote a very hostile book review in the "Die Zeit" newspaper in May 1996 that called "Hitler's Willing Executioners" "simply a bad book".