Nazi Germany - Intentionalist versus Functionalist Theories versus Kershaw's synthesis

Jeremy Scott, Deputy Headteacher from The John Warner School, on the role of Hitler in the period 1933-39 (weak dictator debate)

ONLINE RESOURCES

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE HOSSBACH MEMORANDAM?

Hitler inspecting army maneuvers with General Friedrich Hossbach at Mecklenburg, Germany, 19 September 1937. Click on the link below for Yale Resources on the Hossback Meetings and Minutes.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/document/hossbach.htm

Was the Holocaust Planned and Premeditated?
The Intentionalists see a straight and clear road
Was there a straight and clear road to Auschwitz?

The functionalists see a twisted road

http://www.jewishagency.org/meanings/content/24031

http://www.uvt.ro/files/6f3e12eadfe63b9c3f9e39857579255ed4b06355/

The Nuremberg Trials sentenced leading Nazis to be death for war crimes.

But what is the Theory of Functionalism in Social Theory?

BELOW Prof Ian Kershaw Radio Interview with Andrew Marr BBC

How important is the Nazi Policy of Fatal Injections of mentally ill persons without their families' knowledge or consent? If Hitler and his government officials were willing to murder their own German citizens who were 'useless eaters' in Hitler's words, then is it logical to assume that the murder of the Jews, as a systematic policy is a logical extension of this mentality?

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In "Mein Kampf", Hitler preached the need for LEBENSRAUM. He clearly states that the lands of Russia and the border states to the East were needed for Germany.

THE NAZIS - A WARNING FROM HISTORY - THE WRONG WAR - PART 1

If Hitler was worried about overpopulation why did he institute the award known as the Mother's Cross of Honour?

On this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on August 12, Hitler’s mother’s birthday.

The German Reich needed a robust and growing population and encouraged couples to have large families. It started such encouragement early. Once members of the distaff wing of the Hitler Youth movement, the League of German Girls, turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, in honor of his beloved mother, Klara, and in memory of her birthday, a gold medal was awarded to women with seven children, a silver to women with six, and a bronze to women with five.

From the buried bunker, Hitler’s ghost still haunts Berlin’s psyche, 70 years on

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/25/berlin-nazi-past-adolf-hitler

 A bust of Adolf Hitler lies amid the ruins of the Reich Chancellery in 1945. Photograph: Reg Speller/Getty Images