I recently finished reading "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black. Hitler's purges are really not reasonably debatable: the Third Reich employed statisticians who came up with racial theories to determine how "Jewish" a person was. They published their work in journals. They clearly tried to couch their bigotry in scientific terms.<p>With that said, I don't know what your operating definition of "intellectualism" is. Mine is just one who values and seeks out learning for its own sake.