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264 GERMAR RUDOLF, CARLO MATTOGNO · AUSCHWITZ LIES
3.7.4. Adolf Hitler
On p. 201, the authors discuss David Irving’s old thesis that Hitler did not
know about the alleged extermination of the Jews, 188 and say:
“His evidence for this is a quote from Hitler, recorded by Bormann’s
adjutant Heinrich Heim on the day of October 25, 1941:
‘From the rostrum of the Reichstag I prophesied to Jewry that if war
could not be avoided, the Jews would disappear from Europe. That race
of criminals already had on its conscience the two million dead of the
Great War, and now it has hundreds of thousands more. Let nobody tell
me that despite that [we] cannot park them in the marshy parts of Russia!
Our troops are there as well, and who worries about them! By the way –
it’s not a bad thing that public rumor attributes to us a plan to exterminate
Jews.’” (p. 201)
The authors call the presentation and Irving’s call for a single document for
or against his thesis a “snapshot fallacy” and continue:
“In Hitler’s War Irving reproduces Himmler’s telephone notes of November
30, 1941, after Hitler requested a meeting with him, showing that
the SS chief telephoned Reinhard Heydrich (head of the RSHA) at 1:30
P.M. ‘from Hitler’s bunker at the Wolf’s Lair [Wolfschanze], ordering that
there was to be ‘no liquidating’ of Jews (see figure 37).’ Taking this ‘snapshot’
out of its historical context, Irving concludes: ‘The Führer had ordered
that the Jews were not to be liquidated’. But let’s re-view this snapshot
in the sequence of frames around it. As Raul Hilberg points out, a
more accurate translation of the log is ‘Jewish transport from Berlin. No
liquidation’. In other words, Himmler is referring to one particular transport,
not all Jews. And, ironically, says Hilberg (and Irving concurs in Hitler’s
War), ‘that transport was liquidated! That order was either ignored,
or it was too late. The transport had already arrived in Riga and they
didn’t know what to do with these thousand people so they shot them that
very same evening.’” (p. 201)
The note refers to the Jewish transport, which left Berlin for Riga on November
27, 1941.
Actually, it is the authors who avoid the task of inserting this “snapshot”
accurately into its context. On the one hand, they keep quiet about Hitler’s
other declarations concerning the removal of the European Jews to non-
European countries such as Madagascar, 189 or more generally to Africa 190 or to
Russia. 191 They also say nothing about his intention of “evacuating all the
188
See D. Irving, La guerra di Hitler, Edizioni Settimo Sigillo, Roma 2001, pp. 539f.
189
H. Picker, op. cit. (note 158), p. 189 (July 24, 1942).
190
Ibid., p. 340 (May 29, 1942).
191
W. Jochmann (ed.), Adolf Hitler. Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1944. Die Aufzeichnungen,
Albrecht Knaus, Hamburg 1980, p. 241 (“The Jew has to go away from Europe.
The best thing is for them to go to Russia,” January 27, 1942).