willbeurdaddy
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ORIGINAL: Rule The genocide on the Jews had already been decided on dozens of years before the second world war started. sure it was. Historians originally placed it as early 1941, never earlier. There was a directive in 1939 for evacuation, not extermination: "Complementing the task already assigned to you in the directive of January 24, 1939, to undertake, by emigration or evacuation, a solution to the Jewish question as advantageous as possible under the conditions at the time, I hereby charge you with making all necessary organizational, functional, and material preparations for a complete solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe. " "The recent discoveries allude to a clear and unambiguous order from Hitler himself to kill the Jews. At the same time, they suggest three revisions to the current theory may be in order. First, it is now undeniable that Hitler personally ordered the overall Final Solution decision; second, the decision was not made prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union - rather, the ultimate decision was taken near the end of 1941; third, the Final Solution was not a smoothly evolving process, but rather more dependant on the vagaries of the war effort. The Recently Discovered Documents The two recent discoveries are: The first is a diary entry by Joseph Goebbels of December 12, 1941. It runs as follows: Bezüglich der Judenfrage ist der Führer entschlossen, reinen Tisch zu machen. Er hat den Juden prophezeit, daß, wenn sie noch einmal einen Weltkrieg herbeiführen würden, sie dabei ihre Vernichtung erleben würden. Das ist keine Phrase gewesen. Der Weltkrieg ist da, die Vernichtung des Judentums muß die notwendige Folge sein. With respect of the Jewish Question, the Führer has decided to make a clean sweep. He prophesied to the Jews that if they again brought about a world war, they would live to see their annihilation in it. That wasn't just a catch-word. The world war is here, and the annihilation of the Jews must be the necessary consequence. [7] The second is a note in his own handwriting by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in his soon to be published diary of a meeting he had with Hitler at the latter's Headquarters (Wolfsschanze) on December 18, 1941. The notes are simply: [8] Judenfrage / als Partisanen auszurotten Jewish Question / to be exterminated like the partisans " And when did al-Huysani work with Himmler and Hitler? 1941 On November 20, al-Husayni met the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop[117] and was officially received by Adolf Hitler on November 28.[118] He asked Hitler for a public declaration that "recognized and sympathized with the Arab struggles for independence and liberation, and that would support the elimination of a national Jewish homeland".[115] Hitler refused to make such a public announcement, saying that it would strengthen the Gaullists against the Vichy France,[118] but asked al-Husayni to 'to lock ...deep in his heart' the following points, which Browning summarizes as follows, that ‘Germany has resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time, direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well'. When Germany had defeated Russia and broken through the Caucasus into the Middle East, it would have no further imperial goals of its own and would support Arab liberation... But Hitler did have one goal. "Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power". (Das deutsche Ziel würde dann lediglich die Vernichtung des im arabischen Raum unter der Protektion der britischen Macht lebenden Judentums sein). In short, Jews were not simply to be driven out of the German sphere but would be hunted down and destroyed even beyond it.’[119] Of course the timing of less than one month from meeting with al-Huysani and implementation of the Final Solution he requested is just conicidence. You might have your nanny read this to you at bedtime: but of course, you know it all already
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