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• Was there a master plan on the part of Adolf Hitler to launch the Holocaust? Intentionalists argue that there was such a plan, while functionalists argue there was not.

• Did the initiative for the Holocaust come from above with orders from Adolf Hitler or from below within the ranks of the German bureaucracy? Intentionalists argue that the initiative came from above, while functionalists contend it came from lower ranks within the bureaucracy.

The terms were coined in a 1981 essay by the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason. Notable functionalists have included Raul Hilberg, Christopher Browning, Hans Mommsen, Martin Broszat and Zygmunt Bauman. Notable intentionalists have included Andreas Hillgruber, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Klaus Hildebrand, Eberhard Jäckel, Richard Breitman, Daniel Goldhagen and Lucy Davidowicz. (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... Marxism is the philosophy, social theory and political practice based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German socialist philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary. ... Timothy Wright Mason (March 2, 1940–March 5, 1990) was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. ... Dr. Raul Hilberg Raul Hilberg (born June 2, 1926) is one of the best-known and most distinguished of the Holocaust historians. ... Christopher R. Browning (born May 22, 1944) is an American historian of the Holocaust. ... Hans Mommsen (November 5, 1930-) is a left-wing German historian and twin brother of Wolfgang Mommsen. ... Martin Broszat (August 14, 1926 – October 14, 1989) was a left-wing West German historian. ... Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925 in Poznan, Poland) is a British sociologist of Polish-Jewish descent. ... Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (January 18, 1925-May 8, 1989) was a conservative West German historian. ... Karl Dietrich Bracher (March 13, 1922-) is a German historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. ... Klaus Hildebrand (1941-) is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th German political and military history. ... Eberhard Jäckel (June 29, 1929-) is a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitlers role in German history. ... Lucy S. Davidowicz, a historian, an author of books in modern Jewish history, about the Holocaust, in particular. ...

A separate, but closely linked, debate concerns the nature of Hitler’s power. On one side, there is the “weak dictator” thesis championed by Mommsen and Broszat, and on the other the “Master of the Third Reich” thesis championed by Bracher. If Hitler was a “weak dictator”, then this would support the functionalist case, whereas if Hitler was the “Master of the Third Reich”, this would support the intentionalist case.

It is important to note that neither side disputes the reality of the Holocaust, nor is there serious dispute over the premise that Hitler was responsible for encouraging the anti-Semitism that allowed the Holocaust to take place. Thus, the debate between functionalism and intentionalism, which is considered a topic of legitimate academic debate, is different from Holocaust denial, which is regarded as pseudo-history among academic historians. The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ... Pseudohistory is a term for information about the past, which purports to be historic or supported by archeology, but which is judged to fall outside the domain of mainstream history (sometimes it is an equivalent of pseudoscience). ...

Origins of the Debate

The search for the origins of the Holocaust began almost as soon as World War II ended. At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of 1945-1946, the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe" was represented by the prosecution as part of long-term plan on the part of the Nazi leadership going back to the foundations of the Nazi Party in 1919. Subsequently, most historians subscribed to what would be today considered to be the extreme Intentionalist interpretation. Starting in the late 1960s with the publication of such work as Martin Broszat's The Hitler State in 1969 and Karl A. Schleunes' The Twisted Road to Auschwitz in 1970, a number of historians challenged the prevailing interpretation and suggested there was no master plan for the Holocaust. In the 1970s, advocates of the Internationalist school of thought were known as “the straight road to Auschwitz” camp or as the programmeists because they insisted that Hitler was fulfilling a programme. Advocates of the Functionalist school were known as “the twisted road to Auschwitz” camp or as the structuralists because of their insistence that it was the internal power structures of the Third Reich that led to the Holocaust. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ... The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... Martin Broszat (August 14, 1926 – October 14, 1989) was a left-wing West German historian. ...

In 1981, the British historian Timothy Mason published an essay entitled “Intention and Explanation” that was in part in attack on the scholarship of Karl Dietrich Bracher and Klaus Hildebrand, both of whom Mason accused of focusing too much on Adolf Hitler as an explanation of the Holocaust. In this essay, Mason called the followers of the “the twisted road to Auschwitz”/ structuralist Functionalists because of their belief that the Holocaust arouse as part of the functioning of the Nazi state while the followers of the “the straight road to Auschwitz”/ programmeist school Intentionalists because of their belief that it was Hitler’s intentions alone that explained the Holocaust. The terms Intentionalist and Functionalist have largely replaced the former names for both camps. Timothy Wright Mason (March 2, 1940–March 5, 1990) was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. ... Karl Dietrich Bracher (March 13, 1922-) is a German historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. ... Klaus Hildebrand (1941-) is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th German political and military history. ... (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ...

Extreme Intentionalist interpretation

Extreme Intentionalists believe that Hitler definitely had plans for the Holocaust by 1924, if not earlier. Davidowicz argued that Hitler already decided upon the Holocaust no later than by 1919. To support her interpretation, Davidowicz pointed to numerous extreme anti-semitic statements made by Hitler. Criticism has centered around the fact that none of these statements refer to killing the entire Jewish people; indeed very few refer to killing Jews at all. Only once in Mein Kampf does Hitler ever refer to killing Jews when he states that if only 12,000 to 15,000 Jews had been gassed instead of German soldiers in World War One, then 'the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain'. Given that Mein Kampf is 694 pages long, Davidowicz's critics contend that she was making too much of one sentence. Intentionalist historian Daniel Goldhagen goes further to suggest that popular opinion in Germany was already sympathetic to a policy of Jewish extermination before the Nazi party came to power. He explains in his book “Hitler’s willing executioners” that Germany enthusiastically welcomed the persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime in the period (1933-9). 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Cover of Mein Kampf Mein Kampf (English: My Struggle or My Fight) is the fundamental political work of Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers political ideology of Nazism. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

Moderate Intentionalist interpretation

Moderate Intentionalists such as Richard Breitman believe that Hitler had decided upon the Holocaust sometime in the late 1930s and certainly no later than 1939 or 1941. This school makes much of Hitler's "Prophecy Speech" of January 30, 1939 before the Reichstag where Hitler stated if "Jewish Financers" started another world war, then "...the result would be the annihilation of the entire Jewish race in Europe". The major problem with this thesis, as Yehuda Bauer points out, is that though this statement clearly commits Hitler to genocide, he made no effort after delivering this speech to have it carried out. Furthermore, Ian Kershaw has pointed out that there are several diary entries by Paul Joseph Goebbels in late 1941, where Goebbels writes "That the Fuehrer's prophecy is coming true in a most terrible way". The general impression one gets is that Goebbels is quite surprised that Hitler was serious about carrying out the threat in the "Prophecy Speech". 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Reichstag (German for Imperial Diet) was the parliament of the Holy Roman Empire, the North German Confederation, and of Germany until 1945. ... Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. ... Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born April 29, 1943 Oldham, England) is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. ... Joseph Goebbels Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ...

Extreme Functionalist interpretation

Extreme Functionalists such as Götz Aly believe that the Nazi leadership had nothing to do with initiating the Holocaust and that the entire initiative came from the lower ranks of the German bureaucracy. Aly has made much of documents from the bureaucracy of the German Government-General of Poland arguing that the population of Poland would have to decrease by 25% to allow the Polish economy to grow. Criticism has centered around the fact that this explanation does not really explain why the Nazis would deport Jews from France and the Netherlands to death camps in Poland if it was Poland the Nazis were concerned with and why indeed the Jews of Poland were targeted instead of the random sample of 25% of the Polish population. Götz Aly (born May 3, 1947 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German journalist, historian and social scientist. ...

Moderate Functionalist interpretation

Moderate Functionalists such as Christopher Browning believe that the rivalry within the unstable Nazi power structure provided the major driving force behind the Holocaust. Moderate Functionalists believe that the Nazis aimed to expel all of the Jews from Europe, but only after the failure of these schemes did they resort to genocide. This is sometimes referred to as the 'crooked path' to genocide.

Synthesis

A number of scholars such as Yehuda Bauer, Ian Kershaw and Michael Marrus have developed a synthesis of the Functionalist and Intentionalist schools. They have suggested the Holocaust was a result of a dynamic that came from both above and below and that Hitler lacked a master plan, but was the decisive force behind the Holocaust. The phrase 'cumulative radicalisation' is used in this context to sum up the way extreme rhetoric and competition among different Nazi agencies produced increasingly extreme policies. Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. ... Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born April 29, 1943 Oldham, England) is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. ... Michael Robert Marrus (born February 3, 1941) is a Canadian historian of France, the Holocaust and Jewish history. ...

References

• Aly, Götz & Heim, Susanne Architects of annihilation : Auschwitz and the logic of destruction, Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2002.

• Bauer, Yehuda Rethinking the Holocaust New Haven Conn.; London : Yale University Press, 2001.

• Bracher, Karl Dietrich The German Dictatorship; The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism translated from the German by Jean Steinberg; With an Introduction by Peter Gay, New York, Praeger 1970.

• Breitman, Richard The architect of genocide : Himmler and the Final Solution, New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1991.

• Broszat, Martin The Hitler state : the foundation and development of the internal structure of the Third Reich London : Longman, 1981.

• Broszat, Martin German National Socialism, 1919-1945 translated from the German by Kurt Rosenbaum and Inge Pauli Boehm, Santa Barbara, Calif., Clio Press 1966.

• Browning, Christopher R Fateful months : essays on the emergence of the final solution, 1941-42, New York : Holmes & Meier, 1985.

• Browning, Christopher R The path to genocide : essays on launching the final solution, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

• Browning, Christopher R Nazi policy, Jewish workers, German killers, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Browning, Christopher R The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942 Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

• Burrin, Philippe Hitler and the Jews : the genesis of the Holocaust London ; New York: Edward Arnold ; New York, NY: Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1994.

• Fleming, Gerald Hitler and the Final Solution Berkeley : University of California Press, 1984.

• Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

• Hilberg, Raul The Destruction of the European Jews Yale University Press, 2003, c1961.

• Hildebrand, Klaus Das Dritte Reich Muenchen : Oldenbourg, 1980 translated into English by P.S. Falla as The Third Reich, London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1984.

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• Marrus, Michael The Holocaust in History, Toronto : Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1987.

• Mommsen, Hans From Weimar to Auschwitz Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.

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• Schleunes, Karl The Twisted Road to Auschwitz; Nazi Policy Toward German Jews, 1933-1939, Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1970.