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Volume XXXII No. 10 October, 1977 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOOAim W XmB RfflKOS Bl atlAT BBITABI C. C. Aronsfeld duce the foul brutality of the German original Juda verreckel—perish like a lice-ridden cur in the gutter. This was the slogan of a party's leader who for once meant precisely what he HITLER AND THE JEWS said. He did not always mean what he said and he was of course an accomplished liar, but so far as the extermination of the Jews A Case of Distorted History was concerned, he had reason to jeer (in Mein Kampf) at "those scared simpletons" (inside Germany) who were trying to "guess The intriguing quip that Shakespeare's plays "no liquidation" (yet) of one particular trans what we are up to" as they seemed to regard are not written by Shakespeare, but by port of Jews from Berlin. Irving was so over his programme (he says) as "the ideas of a different man of the same name, is called to whelmed by this veritable treasure trove that some demented ideologist", and during the mind by a new book on Hitler which deals he prints a photo of the note which he inter war, at the height of his power, in 1941, he with his life during the war years. It bears prets — no less and quite seriously — as a poured the same scorn on those "silly fools" the very apposite title "Hitler's War'"*, for the general ban on the extermination of the Jews! throughout the world who would not believe war was truly Hitler's: he preached it, he Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, in his review in the deadly seriousness of Nazi bestiality— prepared for it and he provoked it. But this of the book, drily remarks : "Generally speak they (he said) "ought to have read what I is not how the author of the book, David ing, one does not veto an action unless one have written not once but a thousand times. Irving, conceives of his subject. He is not thinks that it is otherwise likely to occur", More often than I, no one has ever explained concemed with any analytical criticism of and Mr. A. J. P. Taylor thought the whole idea what he really means to do". Hitler, he presents the story "as far as possi "too silly to be worth arguing about". ble through Hitler's eyes"; he has written, as In his very first political statement, in 1919, Hitler explained that his antisemitism it were, a ghost autobiography. While no Irving's Discovery moral judgment is passed on Hitler, it is would be different from that of his forerunners Churchill and Roosevelt who must stand con Actually Irving's discovery is not original, and rivals. Their antisemitism, he said, was demned, also the foolish Poles who refused to and as a discoverer he, on this occasion, "purely emotional" and so would "ultimately surrender in 1939 and the British who fought distinctly differs from Columbus. Whereas express itself in pogroms'. This, he argued, on in 1940, ignoring the fact that Hitler re Columbus thought he had found a part of the had always failed to bring about a final solu garded them as some of his best friends. old world which proved to be new, in Irving's tion—after all the Jews were still around— case it is the other way round—what he and therefore this vvas not what he had in In the course of elaborate researches that fancies to be new turns out to be old hat. The mind. never failed to look up what the proverbial discovery of Hitler's innocence of the Holo Nor was it expulsion, or "emigration". Had butler saw, but did not see the wood for trees, caust was made by Germans as far back as the Jews been shipped to a German-controlled Irving made some discoveries. He, as it were, August, 1956, when the neo-fascist monthly Madagascar (and this was realistically con specialises in discoveries. He discovered, for magazine Nation Europa. while not denying sidered after the fall of France), "Auschwitz" example, in a previous book, that Churchill the extermination, found satisfaction in the would have been enacted there, for since arranged the death of Sikorski, the Polish thought that "secret crimes were committed Jewry was thought of as "the racial tuber Prime Minister (in 1943), a wretched libel for by a group of secret agents acting behind the culosis of the nations", a "fearful threat to which not a shred of evidence could be pro back of the German people, the German every nation". Hitler obviously could see no duced when it was tested in court. He has soldiers, even behind the back of the National "solution" in an action which, from his point now discovered that Hitler was "perhaps the Socialists". In October, 1962, the editor of of view, would only spread what he regarded weakest leader Germany has known in this Nation Europa is pleased to note that there as a "pestilence", "bacilli worse than the centur>" . but the most sensational dis- vvas "no evidence to show that Hitler knew Black Death". Dr Robert Ley, the Nazi labour coverj- he claims to have made is that Hitler of the mad doings of a very small clique of chief, summed up the idea: "It is not enough did not authorise or even know about the criminals". Never is there as much as a to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind, the extermination of the Jews, that the Final passing reference to the Nazis' campaign of Jews have got to be exterminated". Solution merely meant expulsion "to the East" murderous hate, of which the crimes com Not that "emigration" was entirely ruled and that the—undenied—crimes were perpe mitted during the war were only the logical trated behind his back by Himmler, the S.S. out, but as conceived by the Nazis it was to consummation. serve the "final solution'". Alfred Rosenberg, chief, and Dr. Goebbels, who had to "recon But Irving's book is only one, the latest cile" the author of Mein Kampf by telling the party philosopher, put it this way: instance of an increasing tendency to re-view "Germany will regard the Jewish Question him that the British bombing raids were Hitler, and it seems time to restate the truth directed by the Jews ! as solved only after the last Jew has left the in terms that make sense. To begin with, Greater German living space. Europe will have How so? Well, Irving has found no written the destruction of millions of Jews was not its Jewish Question solved only after the last evidence of Hitler's responsibility, and his a -war crime". It had nothing to do with Jew has left the European continent". It conclusion is, because the written evidence war (except that it happened during the war). hardly requires more than ordinary imagina has not been found, it does not exist, and be Being part of the Nazi campaign from the tion to understand when and how the "Jewish cause it does not exist he was able to tell very beginning, it was to be enforced, war Question" in the world would be "solved" the blissfully innocent David Frost that "the or no war. Such was the consistent and to satisfy a Nazi's obsession. kind of documents that have been used to ferocious incitement to hate over a period of convict Hitler would not stand up in a magis 25 years that there could be no doubt of The obsession was refined by the calcula trates' court to convict a gypsy of bicycle- the murderous outcome—even if it had not tion that the ruthlessly impoverished Jews stealing". been intended. This hate is deliberately who were allowed to emigrate would add to But apart from the negative non-evidence, ignored by the neo-Nazi presentation of the the difficulties of such countries as might Irving has come up with a positive one, a events as (isolated) "war crimes". But it is agree to receive them; these difficulties were document which for once is not dismissed. this hate that must be understood if the to be Hitler's opportunities. Moreover expul It is a casual brief note of a telephone call slaughter is to appear credible as well as intel sion was carefully contrived to advance the by Himmler from Hitler's headquarters on ligible to a new generation. grand design of extermination by producing November 30, 1941, telling Heydrich, "Pro a "mass influx" of aliens, which exploited in Thc hate vvas proclaimed back in 1920 the traditional manner, would expand the tector" of Bohemia, that there was to be under the slogan "Perish Judah", which, in • Hitler's War by David Irving. Hodder 4 Stoughton. £9-9*. its English version, does not remotely repro Continued on page 2, cobunn 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION October 1977 quite a few have been made—it was the Nazi HITLER AND THE JEWS attempt which was as competently undertaken as human (or inhuman) ingenuity can ever Continued from page 1 gramme in now distinctly traceable stages. hope for, and it achieved as much as it did They conformed to the rule laid down in because a formidable organisation was fuelled bounds of aggressive antisemitism. With this Af ein Kampf (p. 273): "Where it is a case by a hellish hate. strategy. Hitler could hope to win either way: of achieving seemingly impossible demands" This background to the crimes appears to when the Jews were admitted, antisemitism —as the extermination of Jewry certainly was be increasingly neglected as new, insidious (i.e.

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