HIST 295 Lecture Notes - American Jews, Functionalism Versus Intentionalism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 295
• Professor: Gordon Dueck

Document Summary

Functionalist vs. intentionalist: intentionalists accuse functionalists of rationalizing what happened during the holocaust. Be sure to read the afterword it"s important. Had little interest in his heritage but he was thinking about the holocaust. Some psychologists thought that he himself was acting like a nazi. Puts the subjects under so much stress that it"s almost like a form of torture. Subjects reactions: if they were animals they would have felt different nazis had reduced jews to the point of germs, beyond the point of animals, constantly asking who is responsible. Can we use these findings to explain what happened in poland with police.