Lucy Davidowicz was an intentionalist and she was convinced that the Hitler "intended" to kill the Jews at some given point in time and she believed that Hitler had the plan for the holocaust from the very beginning of his rise to power and that his idea for the final solution could be traced back to mein kampf . Lucy Dawidowicz writes that "War and annihilation of the Jews were interdependent. The disorder or war would provide Hitler with the cover for the unchecked commission of murder. He needed an arena for his operations where the restraints of common codes of morality and accepted rules of warfare would not extend...Once Hitler adopted an ideological position," she adds, "he adhered to it with limpetlike fixity" (quoted in Michael