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1978-1991 Historiography - Coggle Diagram
1978-1991 Historiography
Intentionalist-Functionalist
Decision-Making
Intentionalists
'Straight path from Hitler's anti-Semitism [...] to the first mass shootings of German Jews' (Gerald Fleming)
WWII was the war against the Jews and Hitler's idea for the Final Solution went back to 1918 (Lucy Dawidowicz)
Structuralists
Hans Mommsen and Martin Broszat: Chaos and rivalries within the system led to cumulative radicalisation; there was no 'Fuhrer order' but rather a 'utopian objective eagerly seized upon by 'his entourage''.
Final Solution started as series of 'local initiatives' sanctioned retrospectively 'from above'.
Intentionalists
From particular to general
Emphasis on individual
Monocracy (Hitler-centrism)
Karl Dietrich Bracher, 'The Role of Hitler: Perspectives on Interpretations'
Chaotic governmental structure consequence of Hitler's 'divide and rule' strategy
Final Solution Hitler's central goal from early stage
Straight path from Hitler's anti-Semitism [...] to the first mass shootings of German Jews. (Gerald Fleming)
Functionalists
From general to particular
Emphasis on structure
Polycracy
Martin Broszat, The Hitler State (London, 1981)
Chaos result of Hitler's unwillingness/inability to regulate relationship between Party and State
Final Solution result of process of 'cumulative radicalisation'
Twisted road to Auschwitz (Karl Schleunes)
Victims
German Historiography
From particular to general
Emphasis on Hitler - Intentionalists
Hildebrand, Jaeckel
From general to particular
Analyse Nazi machinery and decision-making process - Structuralists
Wehler, Mommsen, Broszat, etc
Hitler in German historiography of the 1970s
Hitler: 'Master in the III Reich' (Norman Rich, 1973-74)
Intentionalists
Karl Dietrich Bracher: 'National Socialism can indeed be called Hitlerism'
Hitler: 'weak dictator' (Mommsen, 1971)
Structuralists
Polycratic rule, in which Hitler's own authority was only one (albeit important) factor.
Martin Broszat, The Hitler State (1969): Hitler sanctioned pressures operating from different forces rather than governing them. Hitler's will offered 'directions for action'.