(File: Bundesarchiv NS19/Zug.DC/13), transcribed by Dr Gerhard Herrgesell in 1978 at the instance of David Irving, 84 pages. SS-Obergruppenführer Dr Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who became chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt after the assassination of Heydrich in 1942. [Photo: ©Walter Frentz. From David Irving, Hitler's War]. And see further comments on this by David Irving to historian John Fox, January 28, 1998 |
THE 1942 DIARY notes hour by hour the telephone calls and Rücksprachen between Brandt, Himmler and outsiders. There are no references whatever to the Wannseekonferenz, Endlösung der Judenfrage, Judenausrottung etc; in fact only one or two references to Juden at all. No references to Eichmann or Höss; only two or three to Müller. There are many references to Konrad and to Felix Kersten and the latter's demands (e.g. for female prisoners etc). There are two or three references to doctors Sievers and Rascher (but not Romberg), to the Unterwasserversuche [in Dachau], and once to Rascher's film of these experiments being shown to Feldmarschall Erhard Milch. 2. There are seven or more references to [Dr Richard] Korherr, which tends to contradict his assertion post-war that he was a nobody. E.g.
3. Auschwitz is mentioned only four times:- 26.2.1942: Vogel (Befehl RF über Einsatz landwirtschaftlicher Kräfte, Frau Bartsch, Zusammenarbeit mit Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, Auschwitz, Abwasserverwertung). 4. Hitler appears even more marginally:- 28.3.1942: Streckenbach (Erschießung von 2 Offizieren, angeblich Weisung vom Führerhauptquartier, ich soll noch einmal fragen). [Nobody knew of any such order]. David Irving |