Hitler and the Holocaust by Robert S. Wistrich.
Adolf Hitler, The Holocaust and World War 2. From the first day that Adolf Hitler seized power, January 30, 1933, he knew that only sudden death awaited him if he failed to restore pride and empire to post Versailles Germany. His close friend and adjutant Julius Schaub recorded Hitler's jubilant boast to his staff on that evening, as the last celebrating guests left the Berlin Chancellery.
The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust is a crime that has had a lasting and massive impact on our time. Despite the immense, ever-increasing body of Holocaust literature and representation, no single interpretation can provide definitive answers.
THE JEWS AND ANTI-SEMITISMMichael C. Hickey Source for information on The Jews and Anti-Semitism: Encyclopedia of European Social History dictionary.
Dominant in the immediate postwar decades. when the contrast between Germany and the Western allies appeared so stark, the ideological-intentionalist interpretation possesses six characteristics: first, to invest ideology. especially anti-Semitism, with great causal significance, and therefore to highlight the prior intentions of the Nazis;27 second. to stress their agency in the establishment.
Historians differ as to where the responsibility for the Holocaust lies.Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and that he personally oversaw its execution. Functionalists such as Raul Hilberg have argued that the extermination plans evolved in stages, as a result of initiatives from bureaucrats.
Responsibility for the Holocaust is the subject of an ongoing historical debate spanning several decades. Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Adolf Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and that he personally oversaw its execution. Functionalists such as Raul Hilberg have argued that the extermination plans evolved in stages, as a.
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