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that in order to follow Hitler’s wishes, Himmler was implementing the deportation
of the Jews from the old Reich and the Protectorate into those eastern
areas (Ostgebiete), which had been occupied by the Germans two years earlier,
as a first step (als erste Stufe) and, if possible, during 1941. In the following
spring they were to be moved still further east (noch weiter nach Osten
abzuschieben).
Himmler intended to deport 60,000 Jews from the old Reich and the Protectorate
to the Lodz ghetto “for the winter” (für den Winter) while waiting,
precisely, to deport them even further to the east in the spring of the following
year (p. 264), 152 because Lodz was to be used as a transit ghetto. This demonstrates
that the transit ghettos of the Wannsee protocol were, purely and simply,
transit ghettos.
Thus we have here a document – one of many – describing unmistakably
the deportation of Jews to the east as a true deportation without any homicidal
intentions (in September of 1941 the alleged extermination camps in the east
did not yet exist). But for the authors this becomes an allegedly converging
“proof” of Hitler’s decision to go ahead with the mass extermination of the
European Jews. And this in spite of the fact that the authors are absolutely
aware of the absurd nature of their conjecture:
“Witte [153] concludes: ‘This terminology already represents the virtual
death sentence for those Jews due for deportation, irrespective of the fact
that at this point there were no extermination camps ready.” (p. 205)
Such a conclusion is an insult to the science of history and to the “accepted
rules of reason.”
3.6. “Ausrottung” and “Vernichtung”
As “convergent proofs” of the reality of the Holocaust the authors go on to
produce the usual array of quotations from major NS officials, in which the
evidence is said to be the use of terms like “vernichten” or “Vernichtung” (annihilate
or annihilation) and “ausrotten” or “Ausrottung” (exterminate or extermination).
The authors devote a particular section (“The Ausrotten of the Jews,” p.
205) to an attempt at proving that these terms, which were part of the violent
NS rhetoric, did in fact mean physical extermination.
As is well known, the official historiography’s traditional starting point of
such fallacious interpretations is an extrapolation of Hitler’s so-called “prophecy”
in his speech of January 30, 1939: 154
152
For the text of the document and its historical setting cf.: C. Mattogno, J. Graf, Treblinka,
op. cit. (note 94), pp. 194-196.
153
German Historian Peter Witte as quoted by Shermer and Grobman.
154
Max Domarus, Hitler Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945, R. Löwit, Wiesbaden 1973,
vol II, second part, p. 1058: “sondern die Vernichtung der jüdischen Rasse in Europa.”