So remember a couple episodes ago, we were chit-chattin with Seth Lyon, and we were all talking about his book on Medium that goes into the History of the Multiverse? The competition to be New Zealand's leading historian of the Holocaust is, in truth, not very intense. The table talks in question, recorded by Heinrich Heim at Hitler's lunch and dinner table, were first published by Weidenfeld in an English translation. Munich, 1988), p. Kicking it with the compton's 3 2. 227, footnote 41. 'Himmler berichtet über Verlagerung von Fremdrassigen (Juden), kommt auf Lage im Baltikum und Ruthenien zu sprechen, Hauptpunkt Riga, Reval und Minsk. Hitler ordered him shot in the closing weeks of the war when he was caught in civilian clothes preparing to escape through the encroaching Russian lines around Berlin.
Although plans were laid to deport more Jews and thousands were marched to Austria under terrible conditions, many of them dying en route, Auschwitz was now being wound up in the face of the Russian advance and there was no more major extermination, although thousands of Jews died in what had become a virtual ghetto in Budapest in the winter of 1944-45. "Führer-Erlasse" 1939-1945 (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 201. This was because they had been through a traumatic experience (Irving did not say what this was), and 'being in the centre of a traumatic experience is liable to induce strange thoughts in eyewitnesses. ' On 15 March Irving received the results of their researches. During this time, if someone collapsed, he was greeted by a hail of kicks and blows from the butts of rifles. Although Irving claimed that the original had not been found, he described Hochhuth's copy as a 'typed original with several hand-written corrections. ' Da meine Familie, auch die Familie meiner Frau, keine jüdischen Freunde oder Bekannte hatte und wir während des Krieges in einer gewissen Isolation lebten, drang auf unmittelbaren Wegen davon nichts an unser Ohr, auch nicht über andere Verwandte, Freunde und Kamaraden. Kicking it with the compton's 3 1. Might Irving then have had reasons to authenticate the document on internal grounds? For instance von Sonnleithner wrote that 'The threads of the military and civilian leadership always converged in Hitler' 293 In fact, Nazi decision making was a synthesis of initiatives from below and set priorities and decisions from above. This fear of prosecution may have been real or imagined, but it certainly must be considered as a possible factor stopping Hitler's staff from telling all. From 1925 onwards, he served as Hitler's personal adjutant. The presence of the Vatican made the situation in Rome particularly sensitive. Altogether, the camp records list 400, 000 prisoners who were registered in the Auschwitz system, of whom perhaps around half were Jews; half of these died in the camp; the others were mostly transferred to other camps, where many of them died, but some at least managed to survive.
Boley was indeed present at the conference on 6 March 1942. We killed millions of people in Europe in the most bestial way, in defiance of all conventions. Kicking it with the compton's 3 episode. We must recall at this point that in the long extract above, now dated to 2 November 1941, Engel recorded that Himmler waws reporting to Hitler personally about the 'evacuation' of Jews to Riga and Minsk, and that these two towns were the scenes of mass killings of Jews deported from the German Reich at precisely this time. He had not seen it at the time as it lay outside his area of competence. 40 In fact, Hitler was much more explicit: I have already pronounced it in the Reichstag on 1 September 1939 - and I guard myself against premature prophecies -, that this war will not end as the Jews imagine, namely that the European-Aryan peoples will be exterminated, but that the result of this war will be the annihilation of Jewry.
Deshalb muß man die jüdische Gefahr liquidiern, koste es was es shalb wünscht der Führer auch gar nicht, da ß die Juden nach Sibirien evakuiert werden. Von Oven was an activist in the Belgian AGIR, which had close links to the German Volk und Heimat. This is supported by a note by the head of the Inland II department of the Foreign Office, Horst Wagner on a conference in Berlin on the Italian Jewish problem on 4 December 1943. At its most intense moments, during the autumn of 1941, and again during the summer and autumn of 1942, many thousands of Jews were killed every day. 33, ND 3868-PS, Affidavit of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess; Höss's confirmation to the court of the voluntary nature and accuracy of his confession, in ibid., Vol. See Evans, In Hitler's Shadow for an account of the contoversy of the 1980's about parallels. U. Hohn, Die Zerstorung deutscher Städte im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Dortmund, 1991), pp 119 and 208, note 586; H. Bardua, 'Kriegsschäden in Baden-Württemberg 1939-1945', in Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde in Baden-Württemberg (ed.
A single episode will illustrate the fact that Hitler's adjutants were not merely passive witnesses to Hitler's thoughts. "Schreiben wie es wirklich war! Discovery List (hereafter 'Doc. ') 225 60% died from hunger, filth, disease, torture and sheer exhaustion.
Wie mir Lammers in einem Gespraech nach dem Kriege noch erzaehlte, will er durch einen Vortrag bei Hitler verhindert haben, das durchzufeuhren. Wilhelm Brückner and Fritz Wiedermann were both released from Hitler's service in 1939. This massacre was supervised by Friedrich Jeckeln, who had recently been appointed by Himmler as the Chief of the SS and police in the region (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Russland-Nord und Ostland). 23 This depends of course on one's definition of 'documented', which in Irving's case, as this Report has already shown, changes according to what he wants to prove. Whilst Irving never openly challenges the authenticity of the minutes of Hitler's meeting with Horthy, he attempts in various ways to minimise their significance, as we shall now see. Adolf Eichmann certainly did not make such claim during his trial in Jerusalem - indeed, he did not even mention Goebbels's article in Das Reich 53.
He told us nothing in his table talk about the extermination of the Jews in the concentration conversations nevertheless revealed his deep-rooted and fanatical hatred for all other races. ' 'Es ist gar kein Zweifel dass these Aktion denen, die sie angezettelt haben aus der Hand geglitten ist. The only consistency in his figures is that they have resolutely remained far in excess of the most reliable and agreed figures (i. those based on the most solid research and which command the most general assent). If you want to alter a few words in a document in order to make it support your argument, then either do so (which, as we have seen, is the case with some of Irving's translations) or argue that the author would have done so had he been telling the truth. Einen klareren Beweis, daß der Jude letzten Endes eben doch Asiat und nicht Europäer sei, k önne es kaum geben.