During the Nazi Party's reign over Germany, and the many horrors that the Third Reich committed (holocaust, etc), how much culpability did Adolph Hitler actually have over these sorts of things, and how much of it was his underlings or people who were using him as a puppet, or a figurehead?

by JimmyL2014

lets_get_historical

This is largely a debate between the Functionalist and Intentionalists arguments over the Holocaust, and /r/askhistorians actually has a really good podcast series that has an episode that discusses exactly this which should give you a good understanding of the different perspectives. Here's a link.

commiespaceinvader

Hi!

I'm the guy who did the podcst and I also answered a similar question here