The Holocaust is one of the most well-documented events in human history
Fake History Lie of the Month
The Lie:
The Holocaust is one of the most well-documented events in human history.
The Truth:
Many documents that one would expect to find concerning the so-called Holocaust are either nonexistent or misinterpreted.
For example, originally the Holocaust story assumed that Germany had a plan or program for exterminating the Jews. In the 1961 edition of his book The Destruction of European Jews, Raul Hilberg wrote that in 1941 Hitler issued two orders for the extermination of the Jews. However, even though the Allies captured most of Germany’s government and concentration camp records intact, no order or plan has ever been found to exterminate European Jewry.
In the revised 1985 edition of Hilberg’s book, all references to such extermination orders from Hitler were removed. Exterminationist historian Christopher Browning, in a review of the revised edition of The Destruction of European Jews, wrote: “In the new edition, all references in the text to a Hitler decision or Hitler order for the ‘Final Solution’ have been systematically excised. Buried at the bottom of a single footnote stands the solitary reference: ‘Chronology and circumstances point to a Hitler decision before the summer ended.’ In the new edition, decisions were not made and orders were not given.”1
When asked in 1983 how the extermination of European Jewry took place without an order, Hilberg replied:
What began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus, came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus–mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.2
On January 16, 1985, under cross-examination at the first Ernst Zündel trial in Toronto, Hilberg confirmed that he said these words.3 Thus, Hilberg stated that the genocide of European Jewry was not carried out by a plan or order, but rather by an incredible mind reading among far-flung German bureaucrats.
Other historians have acknowledged that no document of a plan by Germany to exterminate European Jewry has ever been found. In his well-known book on the Holocaust, French-Jewish historian Leon Poliakov wrote that “…the campaign to exterminate the Jews, as regards its conception as well as many other essential aspects, remains shrouded in darkness.” Poliakov added that no documents of a plan for exterminating the Jews have ever been found because “perhaps none ever existed.”4
British historian Ian Kershaw stated that when the Soviet archives were opened in the early 1990s: “Predictably, a written order by Hitler for the ‘Final Solution’ was not found. The presumption that a single, explicit written order had ever been given had long been dismissed by most historians.”5
Many defenders of the “Holocaust” claim that the Wannsee conference held on January 20, 1942, was the start of a program to systematically exterminate Europe’s Jews. The documentary evidence of this meeting shows that no extermination program existed; instead, the German policy was to evacuate the Jews to the East. Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer has declared, “The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.”6
Likewise, Israeli Holocaust historian Leni Yahil has stated regarding the Wannsee conference, “[I]t is often assumed that the decision to launch the Final Solution was taken on this occasion, but this is not so.…”7
If anyone wants to read a more complete analysis of the Wannsee Conference, I recommend my article at https://inconvenienthistory.com/14/2/8192.
Endnotes
1 The Revised Hilberg, Simon Wiesenthal Annual, Vol. 3, 1986, p. 294.
2 De Wan, George, “The Holocaust in Perspective,” Newsday: Long Island, NY, Feb. 23, 1983, Part II, p. 3.
3 See trial transcript, pp. 846-848. Also, Kulaszka, Barbara, (ed.), Did Six Million Really Die: Report of Evidence in the Canadian “False News” Trial of Ernst Zündel, Toronto: Samisdat Publishers Ltd., 1992, p. 24.
4 Poliakov, Leon, Harvest of Hate, New York: Holocaust Library, 1979, p. 108.
5 Kershaw, Ian, Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 96.
6 Canadian Jewish News, Toronto, Jan. 30, 1992, p. 8.
7 Yahil, Leni, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945, Oxford University Press, 1990, p. 312.
“By an incredible mind reading among far-flung German bureaucrats.”
Wow! Those nasty Nazis were so evil that their evil transcended to the higher realms of psychic powers and sixth sense communication! I’m going to write a Hollywood script to flesh this out and make a pile of money!
Great ideas on this website!!
Thank you soooooooo much!
hi John
Going through Wikipedia’s page “Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust,” I wonder if you have addressed the following claims anywhere?
HIMMLER SPEECH
In the Posen speeches of October 1943, Himmler explicitly referred to the extermination of the Jews of Europe and further stated that the genocide must be permanently kept secret. On 4 October, he said:
I also want to refer here very frankly to a very difficult matter. We can now very openly talk about this among ourselves, and yet we will never discuss this publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on June 30, 1934, to perform our duty as ordered and put comrades who had failed up against the wall and execute them, we also never spoke about it, nor will we ever speak about it. Let us thank God that we had within us enough self-evident fortitude never to discuss it among us, and we never talked about it. Every one of us was horrified, and yet every one clearly understood that we would do it next time, when the order is given and when it becomes necessary. I am now referring to the evacuation of the Jews, to the extermination of the Jewish people.[21][22]
GOEBBELS DIARY
Joseph Goebbels had frequent discussions with Hitler about the fate of the Jews, a subject which they discussed almost every time they met, and frequently wrote about it in his personal diary.[28] In his personal diary he wrote:
14 February 1942: “The Führer once again expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.”[29]
And this (which seems to contradict the numbers in the Wannsee minutes and elsewhere):
EUROPEAN JEWISH POPULATION REDUCTION
· Circumstantial evidence: during World War II, the population of Jews in German-occupied Europe was reduced by about six million.[6][14] About 2.7 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kulmhof extermination camp, and the Operation Reinhard camps never to be seen or heard from again.[4][15]
Jewish population
The 1932 American Jewish Yearbook estimates the total number of Jews in the world at 15,192,218, of whom 9,418,248 resided in Europe. However, the 1947 yearbook states: “Estimates of the world Jewish population have been assembled by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (except for the United States and Canada) and are probably the most authentic available at the present time. The figures reveal that the total Jewish population of the world has decreased by one-third from about 16,600,000 in 1939 to about 11,000,000 in 1946 as the result of the annihilation by the Nazis of more than five and a half million European Jews. In Europe only an estimated 3,642,000 remain of the total Jewish pre-war population of approximately 9,740,000.” These numbers are also consistent with the findings of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Appendix III, in 1946.
thanks!
Wow taking your information from the jewish yearbook must be accurate! you should read some milesmathis from his writings where he looks at the German Military elite who were mainly Jewish including good old Aldolf. The Putsch was Faked, ie. itler was found to be guilty of treason which is mandatory 5 years, which he didn’Ät serve and was still given German citizenship even though its not possible after such an act, someone was pulling strings, ( I wonder who these mysterious people behind the scenes are ) Secondly the Speech you are talking about ” Taking a look at Himmler’s Oct 4th Posen speech to see if it is a true speech. It was “found” (written) at Nuremberg and then used to push all the fake lies they attribute to the Germans.” but you take it as Gospel from one source please give some cross references?
There is a great film More than Taboo, which at minute 19 even shows the hollywood producer flown in to ‘show’ the Birkenau camps as they are liberated…..
Jasun,
I address many of these issues in my article on this website at http://www.wearswar.com/2023/10/03/matthew-ghobrial-cockerill-vs-thomas-dalton-debate-no-written-order-from-hitler-to-exterminate-jews/.