Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
tion. The Legation seems to have made use of the Jewish advisor assigned to
it, Richter, for this purpose. He is a person to whom the Romanian Government
confirmed its earlier agreement to the inclusion of the Romanian Jews in
the German measures and to whom the Deputy Ministry President Mihai Antonescu
informed of the request of the Marshall that the German agencies
should also carry out the removal from Romania itself and should be then immediately
with the transport of the Jews from the areas Arad, Timisoara and
Turda.
For details may I refer to my conference memorandum of August 17 as D
III 649.
11. At the request of the governments concerned, the legations in Bratislava,
Zagreb and Bucharest have been assigned advisors for Jewish affairs.
They have been made available at the request of the Foreign Office by the
RSHA. Their assignment is for a limited time. It ends as soon as the Jewish
problem in the country concerned can be regarded as solved in the German
sense. Originally it was regarded as solved as soon as the country concerned
has issued Jewish laws similar to the German ones.
Accordingly Richter was recalled from Romania last year by the RSHA.
At the urgent request of the legation in Bucharest, Richter was again assigned
to the legation despite the objection of the RSHA. This was done with
the express intention of having him remain there until the actual final solution
in Romania (D III 1703 Secret and 1893 Secret).
Since all negotiations with the Romanian Government went through the
Foreign Office, the report of SS First Lieutenant Richter submitted by the
Reichsführer-SS should be considered only as an internal work report to the
RSHA. The unusual procedure of having the confirmation of a final conference
in the handwriting of the Deputy Minister President was sharply objected to
immediately through the directive of the 17th of this month; the official handling
of the affair must be carried out immediately. The files have been submitted
there already under D III 659 Secret.
The intended deportations are a further step forward on the way of the total
solution and are in respect to other countries (Hungary) very important.
The deportation to the Government General is a temporary measure. The Jews
will be moved on further to the occupied Eastern Territories as soon as the
technical conditions for it are given.
I therefore request approval for the continuation of the negotiations and
measures under these terms and according to the arrangement made.
Signed: LUTHER”
The material starting with the words “If the question is put from the Bulgarian
side […] ” and ending with the words “The files have been submitted there already
under D III 659 Secret,” is deleted in NMT volume 13. In section 4 the date
of June 24, 1940, for document Pol XII 136 appears, from the context, to be in error;
it should be 1941.
This is not a solitary document; not only is it a summary of a certain number
of documents spelling out the Jewish policies of the German Government, but all
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