Intentionalist historians like Lucy Dawidowicz would disagree with the fact that it was only the result of Wansee that an established plan for a Holocaust took form, in her specialist book "The war against the jews 1933-45," which was written in 1975, she writes, in an extract, that essentially the causes for the final soloution was a combination of "Traditional anti-semitism, the paranoid delusions that gripped Germany after WW1, and the emergence of Hitler and the national socialist movement." She goes on to say that without Hitler's "charisma" and "mission to anihilate the Jews" it would never have happened. What these quotations clearly illustrate is an intentionalist view that Hitler was at the core of the decimation of the Jews, however she also mentions other factors. One factor in particular causes intrigue as "traditional anti-semitism" is a functionalist view. Although this is mentioned it is not used by Dawidowicz to express that Hitler was influenced by it, but rather it allowed him to act out his vision of an anihilation of the Jewish race and made it much easier for him to kill the Jews or even pave a path for the four step plan put forward by Hermann Graml. Dawidowicz writes that it was Hitler's long held grand design and that Hitler believed that his "mission" to extreminate the Jews was divine in nature. Something that is "God's will" is a very powerful motive and by the fact that it was mentioned in Mein Kampf puts in in the intentionalists slot, plus this motivation would've likely carried on, giving it the "long held grand design." The problem with this is that Dawidowicz seems to be plucking out the odd word or two from different speeches but this does not have context to it, so it's easy to formulate an invalid conclusion through words that he used perhaps to enhance his speech to make it more appealing to perhaps, say, a religious audience. As she is an academic historian writting in her specialist book, she would've thoroughly researched the Holocaust and would've looked through a mass array of sources to constuct an argument and make a conclution.
