Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
sioned SS Lieutenant General Heydrich to make, in conjunction with the interested
German Control agencies, all necessary preparations for a total solution
of the Jewish problem in the German sphere of influence in Europe (compare
D III 709 secret). On the basis of this instruction, SS Lieutenant General Heydrich
arranged a conference of all the interested German agencies for January
20, 1942, at which the State Secretaries were present from the other ministries
and I myself from the Foreign Office. In the conference General Heydrich explained
that Reich Marshall Göring’s assignment to him had been made on the
Führer’s instruction and that the Führer instead of the emigration had now
authorized the evacuation of the Jews to the East as the solution (compare
page 5 of the enclosure to D III 29/42 Secret). State Secretary Weizsäcker had
been informed on the conference; for the time being the Reich Foreign Minister
had not been informed on the conference, because SS Lieutenant General
Heydrich agreed to holding a new conference in the near future in which more
details of the total solution should be discussed. This conference has never
taken place due to Lieutenant General Heydrich’s appointment as acting
Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and due to his death.
In the conference on January 20, 1942, I demanded that all questions concerned
with countries outside Germany must first have the agreement of the
Foreign Office, a demand to which SS Lieutenant General Heydrich agreed
and also has faithfully complied with, as in fact, the office of the RSHA handling
Jewish matters had, from the beginning, carried out all measures in frictionless
cooperation with the Foreign Office. The RSHA has in this matter
proceeded indeed almost over-cautiously.
5. On the basis of the Führer’s instruction mentioned under ‘4’ (above), the
evacuation of the Jews from Germany was begun. It was urged that at the
same time these Jews should also be taken who were nationals of the countries
which had also undertaken Jewish measures. The RSHA accordingly made an
inquiry of the Foreign Office. For reasons of courtesy, inquiry was made by
way of the German legations in Bratislava [Slovakia], Zagreb [Croatia], and
Bucharest [Romania] to the Governments there as to whether they wanted to
recall their Jews from Germany in due time or to agree to their deportation to
the ghettos in the East. To the issuance of this instruction, agreement was
given before dispatch by the State Secretary, the Under State Secretary in
Charge of the Political Division, the Director of the Division for Economic
Policy and the Director of the Legal Division (compare D III 336 Secret).
The German Legation in Bucharest reports with reference to D III 602 Secret,
that the Romanian government would leave it to the Reich Government to
deport their Jews along with the German Jews to the ghettos in the East. They
are not interested in having the Romanian Jews return to Romania.
The Legation in Zagreb has informed us that the Croat Government expresses
gratitude for the gesture of the German Government; but it would appreciate
the deportation of its Jews to the East (compare D III 624 Secret).
The Legation in Bratislava reported with reference to D III 661 Secret that
the Slovak Government is fundamentally in agreement with the deportation to
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