Objectif extermination : volonté, résolution et décisions de Hitler

Criticizes the debate amongst historians between intentionalists and functionalists, asserting that the absolute responsibility of Adolf Hitler for the mass murder of the Jews gets lost in the discussions. Quotes from various documents, speeches, and diaries in order to show that the plan for the extermination of the Jews was ready in Hitler's mind in September 1939. Proof can be found, inter alia, in the anti-Jewish propaganda organized by Goebbels, as well as in Goebbels' diaries. Describes the massacres of Jews in various parts of occupied Poland, already from 1939, and further plans of Hitler to concentrate the Jews in one territory in order to facilitate their extermination. Quotes, also, from documents dealing with the extermination process. 135 pages ; 22 cm