Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg was a renowned historian and scholar who extensively studied the Holocaust, the systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II. He aimed to understand how the Holocaust was organized and executed by analyzing the bureaucratic processes and decision-making involved. His influential work, "The Destruction of the European Jews," emphasizes the importance of understanding the institutional mechanisms that facilitated mass murder. Hilberg's research helped broaden the understanding of genocide as not just an act of individual hatred but as a complex, organized process involving government agencies, laws, and administrative systems.