Kände Hitler till förintelsen?

"---I would incidentally rely on this episode as one further instance of my integrity as an independent historian: Inherently dissatisfied with the results of my own research, I hired and paid out of my own pocket for this second opinion, as an avocatus diaboli, to trawl once more, and with a net of finer mesh, across the same fishing grounds for documents that might in fact destroy my, then still tentative, hypothesis. In a similar step, which I think I took to appease the now worried American publishers, I wrote in December 1975 to four or five of the major international Jewish historical research institutions, appealing for "evidence proving Hitler's guilt in the extermination of the Jews."

All of these inquiries by me drew a blank, except for one. As I summed up in a letter to The Sunday Telegraph on June 19, 1977, "... all offered their apologies, except Professor Raul Hilberg, author of the standard history on the subject, who honorably conceded that he too has come to the view that Hitler may not have known." (His letter is in my Discovery). The other institutions stated that they had no such evidence, or they did not reply.---"

"informed me that the Führer has repeatedly pronounced that he wants the solution of the Jewish Question put off until after the war is over."

"Reichsminister informed me that the Fuhrer has repeatedly declared
to him that he wants to hear that the solution to the Jewish
question has been postponed until after the war is over".

That note, says Irving, is incompatible with the notion that Hitler
authorised or condoned the wholesale extermination of Jewry during the
war.

The Defendants' case

5.152 Evans identified several curious features about this note and its
provenance: it is undated; it bears no signature; the addressees are not
listed in the conventional manner; it appears to come from a file
containing miscellaneous documents about Jews which was put together
after 1945 by the prosecutors at Nuremberg. Not all the documents in the
file deal with the same subject-matter. Despite these unsatisfactory
features Evans accepted that the memorandum is an authentic copy or
Abschrift of an original document which has gone missing. He does,
however, add that it is no more than speculation that Schlegelberger is
the author of the memorandum.
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