| Eberhard Jäckel |
Article Index for Eberhard |
Website Links For Eberhard |
Information AboutEberhard Jäckel |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT EBERHARD JäCKEL | |
| german historians | |
| fascist---nazi era scholars and writers | |
| people from bremerhaven | |
| 1929 births | |
| living people | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
|
Jäckel first rose to fame through his 1969 book ''Hitler's Weltanschauung'', which was a examination of Hitler's worldview and beliefs. Jäckel argued that far from being a opportunist with no beliefs as had been argued by Alan Bullock , Hitler held to a rigid set of fixed beliefs and he had consistently acted from his "race and space" philosophy throughout his career. In Jäckel's opinion, the core of Hitler's world-view was his belief in what Hitler saw as the merciless struggle for survival between the "Aryan race" and the "Jewish race" and in his belief that stronger "races" possessed large amounts of living space. Jäckel is one of the leading Intentionalists in regard to the Functionalism Versus Intentionalism debate, arguing from the 1960s on that there was a long range plan on the part of Hitler to exterminate the Jewish people from about 1924 on, views that led to intense debates with Functionalist historians such as Hans Mommsen and Martin Broszat . Recently, Jäckel has modified his position. Her now believes that most of the initiatives for the Holocaust came from Hitler, though it was more the result of a series of ''ad hoc'' decisions rather a masterplan on the part of Hitler. In the '' Historikerstreit '' (Historians' Dispute) of the 1986 - 1988 , Jäckel was a prominent critic of Ernst Nolte , whose theory of Nazi crimes as a reaction to Soviet crimes was denounced as ahistorical by Jäckel under the grounds that Hitler held the Soviet Union in contempt and therefore could not have possibly felt threatened by the Soviets as Nolte suggested. In the late 1970s, Jackel was a leading critic of the British historian David Irving and his book ''Hitler’s War'', which argued that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust. Jäckel in his turn wrote a series of newspaper articles later turned into the book ''David Irving's Hitler : a faulty history dissected'' attacking Irving and maintained that Hitler was very much aware of and approved of the Holocaust. WORKS
REFERENCES
EXTERNAL LINK |