Hitler and the Final Solution

This study represents the opposing "intentionalist" viewpoint and is a response to Irving's revisionist theory that Hitler knew nothing about the Final Solution until 1943 or 1944. On the basis of material from British, American, and Soviet archives, as well as interviews with German eyewitnesses, Fleming argues that Hitler not only knew about the Final Solution but also designed and ordered it. He sees a direct connection between Hitler's "euthanasia" killing program, which was officially terminated in August 1941 because of public protest(but continued in secret until the end of the war)