The Path to Genocide
Subtitle: Essays on Launching the Final Solution (Canto original series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780521558785
Subjects: European history: Second World War; 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish Holocaust; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe; Europe - Germany; Military - World War II; History / Europe / General; Historiography; Reference; Causes
First sentence: In recent years the historiographical discussion of Nazi Jewish policy has reflected the wider debate on National Socialism between so-called "intentionalists" and "functionalists" and the even broader division within the historical profession between those who explain history through the ideas and decisions of individuals and those who explain history through the impersonal and underlying structures of society and institutions that limit and shape the actions of individuals.