Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
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The Madagascar plan was enthusiastically accepted by the RSHA, which in
the opinion of the Foreign Office is the agency which alone is in the position
technically and by experience to carry out a Jewish evacuation on a large
scale and to guarantee the supervision of the people evacuated, the competent
agency of the RSHA thereupon worked out a plan going into detail for the
evacuation of the Jews to Madagascar and for their settlement there. This plan
was approved by the Reichsführer-SS. SS Lieutenant General Heydrich submitted
this plan directly to the Reich Foreign Minister in August 1940 (compare
D III 2171). The Madagascar plan in fact had been outdated as the result
of the political development.
The fact that the Führer intends to evacuate all Jews from Europe was
communicated to me as early as August 1940 by Ambassador Abetz after an
interview with the Führer (compare D III 2298).
Hence, the basic instruction of the Reich Foreign Minister, to promote the
evacuation of the Jews in closest cooperation with the agencies of the
Reichsführer-SS, is still in force and will therefore be observed by D III.
3. The administration of the occupied territories brought with it the problem
of the treatment of Jews living in these territories. First, the military commander
in France saw himself compelled as the first one to issue on September
27, 1940, a decree on the treatment of the Jews in occupied France. The decree
was issued with the agreement of the German Embassy in Paris. The pertinent
instruction was issued directly by the Reich Foreign Minister to Ambassador
Abetz on the occasion of a verbal report.
After the pattern of the Paris decree, similar decrees have been issued in
the Netherlands and Belgium. As these decrees, in the same way as German
laws concerning Jews, formally embrace all Jews independent of their citizenship,
objections were made by foreign powers, among others protest notes by
the Embassy of the United States of America, although the military commander
in France through internal regulation had ordered that the Jewish
measures should not be applied to the citizens of neutral countries.
The Reich Foreign Minister has decided in the case of the American protests
that he does not consider it right to have military regulations issued for
making an exception of the American Jews. It would be a mistake to reject objections
of friendly states (Spain and Hungary) and on the other hand to show
weakness toward the Americans. The Reich Foreign Minister considers it necessary
to make these instructions to the field commanders retroactive (compare
D III 5449).
In accordance with this direction, the Jewish measures have been given
general application.
4. In his letter of June 24, 1940 – Pol XII 136 – SS Lieutenant General
Heydrich informed the Reich Foreign Minister that the whole problem of the
approximately three and a quarter million Jews in the areas under German
control can no longer be solved by emigration – a territorial final solution
would be necessary.
In recognition of this, Reich Marshall Göring on July 31, 1941, commis-