How Did Functionalism Influence Hitler's Decisions

Functionalists also acknowledge Hitler’s predominantly uninvolved role in the decision-making process. Many times, Hitler’s henchmen would do, what they interpret that the Führer would want them to do, based on his speaking. They also say the Holocaust originated more from the SS and other government agencies over time, rather than being a specific plan of Hitler’s. Most believe that only after early Jewish murders in eastern Poland, did Hitler officially sanction the Holocaust. Christopher Browning writes, “Functionalists emphasized the dysfunction and unplanned destructive implosion of an unguided bureaucratic structure and tension-filled political movement prominent in the Nazi government.” Nazi Germany only reached the Final Solution because