Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 6: Et Cetera
The evidence that Hitler said this is the alleged minutes of the meeting and the
supporting IMT testimony of Dr. Paul Otto Schmidt, Hitler’s interpreter, who
normally sat in on such conferences and prepared the minutes. Schmidt testified
that he was present at the meeting and that the minutes were genuine and prepared
by him. However, in his later book, he wrote that he was not present, because
Horthy had insisted on his leaving the room! 338
There is also a statement in Hitler’s political testament :
“I also made it quite plain that, if the peoples of Europe were again to be
regarded merely as pawns in a game played by the international conspiracy of
money and finance, they, the Jews, the race that is the real guilty party in this
murderous struggle, would be saddled with the responsibility for it.
I left no one in doubt that this time not only would millions of grown men
meet their death and not only would hundreds of thousands of women and
children be burned and bombed to death in cities, but this time the real culprits
would have to pay for their guilt even though by more humane means
than war.”
This statement is frequently interpreted as an admission of exterminations, but
its meaning is at least ambiguous. After all, the payment spoken of was by “more
humane means than war.” The Jews who had been in Hitler’s domain had lost
property and position in Europe, and that fact may offer the correct interpretation.
Loss of property and position might seem a woefully inadequate payment for the
events charged to the Jews, but it is well known that all politicians, before leaving
the public scene, like to exaggerate the significance of their works.
There also exists a possibility that the text of the testament was tampered with,
because its discovery by British and American authorities was not announced until
December 29, 1945, and because only the last page is signed. Only the typewriter
and stationery Hitler’s secretary used would have been required to make an
undetectable alteration. 339
Heinrich Himmler
There is a speech allegedly given by Himmler in Posen in October 1943. The
translation of the relevant part, as it appears in the NMT volumes, is as follows,
with the original German given in some cases: 340
“I also want to talk to you, quite frankly, on a very grave matter. Among
ourselves it should be mentioned quite frankly, and yet we will never speak of
it publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on June 30, 1934, to do the duty we
were bidden and stand comrades who had lapsed up against the wall and
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Reitlinger, 450-452; Hilberg, 524; Schmidt, 248.
Last page of testament reproduced by Trevor-Roper, 180. Discovery and text of testament reported
in New York Times (Dec. 30, 1945), 1; (Dec. 31, 1945), 1, 6. Text also given by Shirer
(1947), 180-181.
1919-PS in IMT, vol. 29, 110-173 (in German). Excerpts in English translation in NMT, vol. 13,
318-327.
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