Mason himself was a functionalist and insisted that Hitler’s will should not carry the maid burden of explanation. Mason, amongst other functionalist historians argues in his book that multiple social and economic agencies resulted in a chaotic and reactionary atmosphere, amidst which, pragmatists within the Nazi regime saw potential to instigate genocidal …show more content…
Frei states that there is general historical agreement that a formal written order by Hitler himself was never made demanding the systematic genocide of the Jews. The intentionalist argument however still follows the idea that the genocide of European Jews was ‘inspired by Nazi racial ideology’ which was a direct product of Hitler’s actions and