Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
so since the cooperation of Slovakia up to now in the Jewish problem has been
highly appreciated here. This instruction has been cosigned by the Under State
Secretary in charge of the Political Division, and the State Secretary.
7. The Croat Government is likewise fundamentally agreeable to the removal
of the Jews from Croatia. It especially considers the deportation of the
four to five thousand Jews from the Italian occupied Second zone (centered
around Dubrovnik and Mostar) to be important, as they represent a political
burden and their elimination would serve the general pacification. The removal
can of course take place only with German aid, as difficulties are to be
expected from the Italian side. There have been practical examples of resistance
to the Croat measures by Italian officials on behalf of well-to-do Jews.
Furthermore, the Italian Chief of Staff in Mostar has said that he cannot approve
the removal since all the people living in Mostar have been assured of
the same treatment.
Since meanwhile according to a telephone communication from Zagreb,
the Croat Government has given its written approval of the proposed measure,
Minister Kasche thinks it right to begin with the removal, and in fact to begin
for the whole country. One could therefore take the risk of having difficulties
develop in the course of the action, so far as concerns the zone occupied by
Italians.
A report for the Reich Foreign Minister to this effect (D III 562 Secret) has
been held up by State Secretary von Weizsäcker since he considered an inquiry
should first be made at the Embassy in Rome. The answer has not been received.
The problem of the Italian Jews has come up in the same way in connection
with the evacuation of the Jews in France.
Ambassador Abetz points out in connection with the deportation in preparation
from the Occupied French Territory that there was an urgent political
interest to take the foreign Jews first in the evacuation measures. Since these
Jews were regarded as foreign bodies, they were already especially hated and
passing them over and giving them thereby a quasi privileging would cause
bad feeling, the more so since among them were to be found responsible instigators
of Jewish terror and sabotage acts. It was regrettable that the Axis appeared
exactly in this point to pursue no uniform policy.
If the evacuation of the foreign Jews were not immediately possible, the
Italian Government should be for the time being asked to repatriate their Jews
from France.
On the Italian side, economic interests appear to play a decisive role. The
safeguarding of these interests, however, is entirely possible, so that on this
point there needs to be no obstacle to the planned solution.
On this question of the Italian Jews in France a conference record of July
24, re D III 562 Secret, has been submitted to the Reich Foreign Minister.
8. On the occasion of a reception by the Reich Foreign Minister on November
26, 1941, the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Popoff touched on the problem
of according like treatment to the Jews of European nationalities and
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