ww2 historiography

Question 1

hillgruber

Answer 1

no moral difference between allied policies towards Germany in 1944-45 and the genocide waged against the jews

Question 2

de felice

Answer 2

Mussolini was a revolutionary modernizer domestically but a pragmatist in foreign policy; continued realpolitik

Question 3

schreiber

Answer 3

“hitler’s failure to establish true alliances rather than satellite relationships in which Germany always maintained the upper hand”

Question 4

bullock

Answer 4

hitler had an ideological agenda laid out in mein kampf that he was actively trying to achieve throughout his years of leadership

Question 5

hildebrand

Answer 5

hitler was an intentionalist, not a functionalist. hitler intended for his country to wage the genocide against the jews and to roll out the war in the different stages

Question 6

functionalism vs intentionalism

Answer 6

functionalists: there was not a master plan by Hitler to launch the holocaust. intentionalists: there was a master plan

Question 7

ajp taylor

Answer 7

Hitler was a normal German leader in terms of foreign policy, matched what the Weimar republic and 2nd reich did. also a normal western leader - Hitler wanted to make germany the strongest power in Europe but did not want war