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Raul Hilberg, widely considered to be one of the world's preeminent Holocaust scholars, published his three-volume, 1, 273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews in 1961 ; this work is regarded today as a seminal study of the Nazi Final Solution.

Hilberg notes that Dawidowicz not only ignored The Destructions findings in The War Against the Jews, but also went on to exclude mention of him in her 1981 historiographic work, The Holocaust and the Historians.

Hilberg's work, running as it did against the grain of intentionalist thinking, was widely unpopular among many early scholars, a contrast to later views.

It is argued that Davidowicz, a renowned intentionalist, simply ignored Hilberg's work in order to follow an academically safer path, avoiding controversy by avoiding functionalist conclusions like those drawn by Hilberg.

" She wanted preeminence ," Hilberg writes.