Among the tons of confiscated papers fromNazi Germany after planet War II has not oneproof that Hitler everordered the extermination of the Jews.
— paraphrased by SOTN editor
Introduced by JK
Since the end of planet War II, the search has continued, and for many it has ended that the quarry has escaped its hunter. any believe that what they search never existed in physical form, but inactive existed. It is highly crucial that it exists during the war, though it has never been located by those pursuing it since the defeat of Germany. Although no 1 has seen him, circumstances dictate that he must exist.
The fabulous thing to be assumed, but never seen, is the order to begin the extermination of Jews.
The logic of Hitler's "order" is that since there was a program of "Nawzi" extermination of Jews, he had to be ordered by someone; and individual who had the authority to do so in Nazi Germany was Adolf Hitler.
But specified an order was never found.
In specified a case, the order must be destroyed or issued orally and has never been handed over on paper. At least that's the argument.
The German housewife during the war needed coupon papers to buy butter or almost everything else. erstwhile the coupons ran out, she couldn't buy butter anymore. People needed papers while travelling or working.
Nazi Germany was a top-down bureaucracy in which paperwork was needed to do almost everything. erstwhile individual wanted to do something unusual, they had to ask approval from the authorities, who would then issue the appropriate licence documents. However, this pattern was broken with the extermination of the Jews, and no real explanation was always proposed for why this is happening.
Written orders to kill Jews under the control of national socialists would should be given. This cannot be circumvented due to the fact that giving an oral order would have consequences of its own. specified consequences would be as apparent in historical records as any written order.
For example, whenever individual with any authority passed through Auschwitz, Treblinka or any of the "camps of doom", he asked what is the meaning of piles filled with dead bodies. specified a guest asked to be acquainted with an order that gave the camp administration authority and authority to unthinkably kill prisoners of the camp. If the liable persons could not supply specified documentation due to the fact that the order was oral, the applicant would naturally compose to Berlin requesting confirmation. Berlin would gotta react.
Hundreds of specified letters are expected to be found if the extermination camps operate on oral authority. These inquiries and requests for verification would give a paper way that would last the war, as copies of this correspondence would multiply as they passed through German bureaucracy in 2 and 3 copies.
One of the arguments utilized to explain voidness in Holocaust papers is that the order to kill Jews along with another papers concerning the extermination program was destroyed by the Germans in order to hide their crimes.
This is besides improbable due to the fact that following all these papers would be almost impossible. Additionally, agents of Judeo-Alyant intelligence infiltrated the Nazi government and intercepted coded German communications. German national socialist enemies would uncover them to Judeo-aliants long before the end of the war. Those who followed orders would have strong motivation not to destruct those orders due to the fact that they could be utilized in their defence in the event of a charge of war crimes.
For these and another reasons, the explanation of Hitler's "word order" is not credible. Since no order has been found, and an extermination program as a government policy would be needed, logic suggests that there was no extermination program.
Below is simply a series of quotes from various historians, writers and thinkers who have studied this issue.
"So there is no specified thing as a written order signed by [Hitler] to exterminate Jews in Europe". Colin Cross, Adolf Hitler, (Medialan, 1977), p. 313.
Despite the large harvest of the "Nazi" papers obtained by the Allies at the end of the war, there is precisely a deficiency of papers concerning the process of forming the thought of a definitive solution to the judaic issue, to the degree that it is hard to say so far how, erstwhile and precisely by whom the order to exterminate Jews was issued. Lilliano Picciotto Fargion, La congiura del silenzio (Conspiracy of Silence), La Rassegna mensile d'Israel, May-August 1984, p. 226.
"For in talks at the table, speeches, papers or memories of participants from all these years, we have not received a single concrete mention [Hitler] to the practice of annihilation. No 1 can say how Hitler reacted to Einsatzgruppen's reports, whether he asked or saw films or photos of their work, and whether he intervened with suggestions, praise or guilt. erstwhile we consider that he usually turned everything that occupied him into unbridled speeches, that he never hid his radicalism, vulgarity, his readiness to fall into extremes, it seems to be the silence of the central concern of his life—including, as was the case in his mind, the salvation of the world—the stranger. Joachim C. Fest, Hitler (New York: Vintage Books, 1975), p. 681.
"Unless no 1 has yet discovered a written trace of this order [to destruct the Jews under German control] in sources which have been exploited until now, and if this seems unlikely, it is the work of the historian to date it as accurately as possible, referring to interpretation. Since the methods and hypotheses on this subject are very numerous, we have very different opinions. Saul Friedländer, L'Allemagne nazie et le genecide juif, Gallimard, Le Seuil, 1985, pp. 177-178.
"For deficiency of hard evidence – and in 1977 I offered a 1000 pounds worldwide to anyone who could present even 1 war paper clearly showing that Hitler knew, for example, about Auschwitz. My critics resorted to arguments from subtle to sledgehammer (in 1 case literally). They called for the Führer's orders to be without the slightest written proof of their existence. ... From clear, written, war evidence, the kind of evidence that could hang a man, they didn't make a single line. David Irving, Hitler's War (London: Focal Point, 1991), pp. 19-20.
"To this day, Hitler's written order to destruct the European judaic community has not been found and, according to all likelihood, this order has never been issued". Walter Laqueur, Was Invisent Wissen wollte: Die Unterdruckung der Nachrichten über Hitlers Endlösung (What No 1 Wanted to Know: suppression of Hitler's "final solution" message), (Berlin-Vienna, 1981), p. 190.
"The fresh York Times' ... Preliminary article (2 December 1942) claimed that "out of 200,000 German Jews in 1939 all but 40,000 were deported or killed", while claiming that "according to evidence in the hands of [US] The State Department, Adolf Hitler's order demanding the extermination of all Jews in all territories controlled by Germany, was known for its existence. Scientists nearly 40 years later continued to search for this order or information leading to anyone who could always see it at any time. James J. Martin, The Man Who Invented 'Genocide': The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lemkin (Torrance: Institute for Historical Review, 1984), p. 40.
"So far, he has not seen any written paper containing or informing of a clear order for the extermination of Jews. This does not mean, of course, that specified direct evidence will not appear in the future. In the meantime, it should be assumed that the order or informal order for mass execution of Jews was handed over orally." Arno J. Mayer, Why did the Heavens not darkken?: The 'Final Solution' in past (New York: Pantheon Books, 1990), p.235-36.
The process in which full extermination replaced displacement in Madagascar or "East" as the alleged final solution to the judaic issue remains unclear. No written order by Hitler regarding the extermination of the Jews was discovered, and the evidence on the oral order is only indirect. Chronology of the improvement of the extermination program is besides confusing". J. Noakes and G. Pridham, ed., Nazism: A past in papers and Eyewitness accounts 1919-1945 – Vol. 2, (New York: Schocken Books, 1988), p. 1136.
The archives torn from the guts of the 3rd Reich, the evidence and accounts of its bosses let us to reconstruct in the smallest details the birth and improvement of its plans for aggression, its military campaigns and a number of processes by which the "Nazis" intended to transform their planet into their own pattern. Only the run for the extermination of Jews, in terms of ending it, and in many another crucial aspects, remains in the fog. intellectual conclusions and reflections, relations with the 3rd or 4th hand, let us to reconstruct developments with considerable credibility. However, certain details will stay unknown forever. As for the appropriate concept of a plan of full extermination, 3 or 4 major actors are dead. No paper has been preserved and possibly never existed." Leon Poliakov, Breviaire de la haine (Breviary of Hate), Paris 1979, p. 134.
"What happened in the advanced circles of the 'Nazi' as the Führer's Order on the Final Solution, seemingly has never been written on paper – at least no copy of it has yet been discovered in the intercepted papers of 'Nazi'". William Shirer, The emergence and Fall of the 3rd Reich (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1960), p. 1256.
"It is impossible to find the exact minute erstwhile Hitler issued the order—unquestionably never written—to exterminate Jews". — Christian Zentner, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf. Issue with commentary by Christian Zentner, Munich 1974, p. 168.
And just for kicks, this is simply a bad effort by the ADL to fight what everybody's waking up to.
Sources:
Richard A. Widmann: compilation, investigation 29 June 1995
