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Functionalism versus intentionalism is a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust as well as most aspects of the Third Reich, such as foreign policy. The debate on the origins of the Holocaust centres on essentially two questions: The terms were coined in a 1981 essay by the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason. Notable functionalists have included Timothy Mason, Raul Hilberg, Karl Schleunes, Christopher Browning, Hans Mommsen, Martin Broszat, Götz Aly, Yehuda Bauer and Zygmunt Bauman. Notable intentionalists have included Gerald Fleming, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Andreas Hillgruber, Klaus Hildebrand, Eberhard Jäckel, Gerhard Weinberg, Walter Laqueur, Saul Friedländer, Richard Breitman, Lucy Dawidowicz and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

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  2. Marrus 2000, p. 39.
  3. Streim 1989, pp. 439–440.
  4. Marrus 2000, p. 44.
  5. Broszat 1985, p. 399–404.
  6. Marrus 2000, p. 41.
  7. Broszat 1985, p. 408.
  8. Broszat 1985, pp. 408–413.
  9. Rees 1997, pp. 194–195.
  10. Rees 1997, p. 195.
  11. Kershaw 2008, p. 259.
  12. Haberer 2001, p. 65.
  13. Haberer 2001, p. 70.
  14. Schleunes, Karl (1970). The twisted Road to Auschwitz. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252061479. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Twisted_Road_to_Auschwitz.html?id=uIfyhjxw6mAC. 
  15. Domarus (1990). Hitler Speeches and Proclamations, 1932–1945. [Vols. 1–4], p. 1449.
  16. "Papers on 'The Eternal Jew' by Stig Hornshoj-Moller". Archived from the original on 2 July 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060702072155/http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/. 
  17. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/der-ewige-jude
  18. Richard Bessel, "Functionalists vs. Intentionalists: The Debate Twenty Years on or Whatever Happened to Functionalism and Intentionalism?" German Studies Review 26, no. 1 (2003): p. 16.
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