PETER LONGERICH, The Unwritten Order: Hitlers Role in the Final Solution (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2001), 160 pp. ISBN 0 7524 1977 3. £17.00 US $21.99 IRMTRUD WOJAK, Eichmanns Memoiren: Ein kritischer Essay, Wis- senschaftliche Reihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts, Sonderband (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2001), 279 pp. ISBN 3 593 36381 X. EUR 25.50 MICHAEL WILDT, Generation des Unbedingten: Das Führungskorps des Reichsicherheitshauptamtes (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2002), 964 pp. ISBN 3 930908 75 1. EUR 35.00 CHRISTIAN GERLACH and GÖTZ ALY, Das letzte Kapitel: Realpoli- tik, Ideologie und der Mord an den ungarischen Juden 1944/45 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2002), 481 pp. ISBN 3 421 05505 X. EUR 35.00 For a long time, debate about the Holocausts origins was dominated by the intentionalists and the functionalists. According to the clas- sic intentionalist view, the decision-making process leading to Auschwitz was single-minded and single-handed. Hitler, with a firm grip on power, was hell-bent on murder. The descent into genocide occurred because the master of Germany progressively implemented his plan. By contrast, the functionalists believed that Hitler merely supplied the rhetoric. Nazi Germanys internal structure was so anarchic that no one was in control. The murderous escalation of anti-Jewish measures was the result of untrammelled competition between Nazi leaders, pushing the envelope in a policy-area known to enjoy Hitlers particular regard. The interchange between these two schools was enormously productive, but over the last ten to fif- teen years an explosion of new research on the Holocaust has so recast the interpretative landscape as to render them almost irrele- vant. For one thing, central leadership and widespread participation no longer look so opposed to one another. It is possible to acknowledge 64 IDEAS, CONTEXTS, AND THE PURSUIT OF GENOCIDE by Mark Roseman