The intentionalist camp of historians place Hitler at the very center of the Holocuaust, believing that it was based on the initial goals of Hitler. Right from the time when Hitler sat in Landsberg Prison, drafting his infamous autobiography, Mein Kampf, Hitler believed that the ultimate goal of his movement was to eradicate the Jews by means of genocide. One prominent intentionalist, Lucy Dawidowicz, declared that Hitler’s ideas for the Final Solution date back to his time spent in Pasewalk hospital in 1918. She also stated that in his unpublished second volume of Mein Kampf, that Hitler “openly espoused his program of annihilation, which was the blueprint for his policies enacted when he came to power.” Dawidowicz and Karl Bracher, believe
