Abstract
This chapter analyses the ongoing discourse in which Hans Mommsen's argument must be understood, and presents the narrative of Holocaust historiography up to the end of the 1980s. In terms of the 'Final Solution' Mommsen saw the vacillation in Hitler's willingness to tolerate a system in which Jews continued to be treated differently. In emphasising the 'Final Solution' as a process, Martin Broszat consciously engaged not only David Irving but also Lucy Dawidowicz's argument that its origins could be sought in Hitler's 'preformed psychological motive of destruction'. Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust reflected a general tendency, born of functionalism, that the Holocaust could be seen as the product of larger, more profound historical forces. While Bauman is a sociologist the argument he proposed was forged in the wake of both functionalist historiography and acted as a further critique of intentionalism.
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