Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
for this alleged mass extermination campaign!"
Nada!
Let that sink in. Not a single document has been found with Hitler's signature
ordering the extermination of the Jews!
That there existed such an order had been a much-repeated claim for decades.
Many people, to this day, believe that there was such an order. It is a
heartening development to have the Holocaust Promotion Lobby in general
finally admit that there was, in fact, no Führer order EVER to exterminate
the Jews. Revisionists credit themselves for having secured this admission.
Thanks to Revisionist scholarship, especially Dr. Robert Faurisson's, the
Holocaust Promotion Lobby, in the end, had no choice but to "adjust"
their claims.
Foremost among those folks who find themselves engaging in Revisionism-by-default
is Dr. Raoul Hilberg.
Known as the "Pope of the Holocaust" for having authored "The
Destruction of the European Jews," - often referred to as "The
Holocaust Bible" - Dr. Hilberg is a man who is widely regarded as the
"#1 Expert" on Holocaust matters. After a grilling of his life
in a searing cross-examination by Ernst Zündel's attorney, Doug Christie,
we now find the following Hilberg sequence:
In his 1961 edition of his book, "The Destruction of the European Jews," Dr. Hilberg wrote that there were TWO Hitler orders. (Hilberg, Raoul, The Destruction of the European Jews, Quadrangel, Chicago, page 177)
At the 1985 trial of Ernst Zündel, Hilberg continued to insist that the orders existed, stating that he would not be correcting what he wrote in 1961 in his new, forthcoming edition.
(As recorded for posterity in Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp. 851-852)
Shortly after his testimony, Hilberg then proceeded to delete all references to a Hitler Order in the body of his new edition, published in 1985.
(Hilberg, Raoul, "The Destruction of the European Jews," Holmes & Meyer, New York, 1985, p 402)
In this new edition, the reference to a "Hitler Order" is buried in a footnote:
"Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus, mind-reading by a far-flung bureaucracy."
(Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel - 1988, Edited by Barbara Kulaszka, pp. 112-113)
"Did this include nods and winks?" asked Zündel defense attorney,
Douglas Christie, in the 1988 Zundel Trial.
Did the Nazi leaders and those who had to carry out the alleged orders whisper
in each others ears how to exterminate millions and millions of Jews? There
is a bridge I would like to sell you in Brooklyn.
Even Holocaust historian Christopher Browning noted this as a major interpretational
change in Hilberg's work, speaking of his colleague as "The Revised
Hilberg."
(Re: A directive from a symposium that led to an article, "The Revised
Hilberg", Simon Wiesenthal Annual, Volume 3, 1986)
THERE WAS NO FUEHRER ORDER TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS.
What is still left are two incendiary words: "Final Solution"
- or, the German equivalent, "Endlösung."
It is true that the words "Endlösung" or "Final Solution"
were used in reference to the Jews. So what? Does that prove anything? Does
that mean "extermination"? Does a "Final Solution" to
the unemployment problem mean the government is going to exterminate all
the unemployed?
In a recent television documentary about Canada's wartime policy toward
Canadians of Japanese origin, documents were unearthed that talked about
"The Final Solution" to the "Japanese problem" - which
was relocation, denaturalization and deportation of the Japanese from Canada
to Japan. This was exactly what Germany's policies were towards the Jews
- for almost the same reasons. The country was at war, and Jews were seen
as subversive to the government and to the war effort - just as Japanese
were seen as subversive to Canadian wartime policies.
Nobody claims today that Canada was planning the genocide of the Japanese!
Incidentally, the bureaucrat who had formulated the Canadian policy and
signed the papers is still alive today. A few years ago, he was asked what
he thought about his plans. He replied: "It was government policy.
The Japanese were the enemy. The policies were justified."
So it was true for Hitler's Germany. Germany's war-time policies were far
less race-based and much more ideological in nature than Canada's and those
of the United States during that period of time.
As a matter of fact and record, tens of thousands of Jews lived and worked
in Hitler's Germany during the entire war outside concentration camps, even
in Hitler's capital, Berlin - one of them being the famous Rabbi and Zionist
leader Leo Baeck, who was a practicing rabbi in 1943!
If you doubt that, check on the 1943 Berlin telephone book where you will
find row after row of Jewish social agencies, soup kitchens, hospitals,
courts, libraries etc.!
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it."
(J. Jenkins)
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