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The Holocaust

Nick Shepley examines how far the events of the summer of 1941 decided the fate of the Jews

Source A Jews waiting on a Warsaw street for deportation to a concentration camp

The question of Hitler’s planning of the mass murder of the Jews, his long-term intentions and the extent of his direct ‘hands on’ involvement in the Final Solution has been the subject of intense and at times passionate debate.

In 1981 the historian Timothy Mason identified two schools of thought. He labelled them intentionalist and functionalist:

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