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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 217<br />

ing with the territorial final solution, initially targeting Madagascar, later<br />

on the East). No document, however, supports that radical change <strong>of</strong><br />

principle, which an extermination policy would have been. When, how,<br />

why, and on whose orders would this policy <strong>of</strong> deportation and resettlement<br />

in the East have been turned into a program <strong>of</strong> total physical extermination?<br />

When did the deportation to the East become a mere “euphemism”<br />

for massacre? Who decided to build “extermination camps”<br />

and when, how, and why did this occur?<br />

To these questions, mainstream <strong>Holocaust</strong> historians can furnish only<br />

conjectural and contradictory replies. What is certain is that such a<br />

radical about-face would have required an order just as radical: the alleged<br />

Führerbefehl, the order by Hitler.<br />

The following chapter will deal with this fundamental question <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Holocaust</strong> historiography.

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