The mass murder of European Jews was deliberately planned by Adolph Hitler before the wars began because there were already death camps in preparation, Hitler was considering other ways to execute all Jews, and he removed Jewish leaders from their communities so that they would have no power or say in what was going to happen. There are some questions about the Holocaust today that people cannot answer. Many people have their own opinions about the war and whether it affected the serious reasons for the murder of all the Jews. Some questions people had were whether the Holocaust was intentional by Adolf Hitler. Intentionalism is when you do something deliberately or when you want to harm something or someone; it's intentional. “Moreover, some functionalist theories tend to normalize Nazism by suggesting that its leaders engaged in the most extreme criminal behavior” (Wistich 223). Some believe that the Holocaust was not simply the result of directives from Berlin but of an interaction between the center and an increasingly radicalized periphery. “The first concentration camps in Germany were established shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933” (Concentration Camps). A chancellor is the prime minister of state in some governments, such as Germany. Some concentration camps were being built and others were already being built before the start of World War II. During the war, the number of camps increased rapidly in Germany. “Conrad Gröber, Archbishop of Freiburg, informed the people on June 14, 1932 of the massacres of Jews perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppenin in Russia” (Wistich 130). This being mentioned with the authorities' evidence, German authorities created and ran approximately 20,000 camps between 1933 and 1945. C...... middle of paper ...... in large numbers. “Bishop Berning noted on February 5, 1942 that 'the plan for a total elimination of the Jews clearly exists'” (Wistich 130). Functionalists claim that the Holocaust did not begin until 1942, following the failure of Nazi military losses in Russia. In 1943, German soldiers began streaming into concentration camps to participate in the murder of Jews and provide surveillance. People in countries that had no contact with any Jews did not know what was happening or what to believe if Jews were being killed or not. The massacre of European Jews was intentionally planned by Hitler before the wars began; Due to the capture of all innocent men and women of Jewish religion before the failure against Russia. The number of people belonging to the Jewish religion fell dramatically during this period..