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Real History and Hitler’s Role in the Holocaust The Schlegelberger index again Auschwitz Heydrich Himmler Hitler Jäckel Wannsee conference PRESS RELEASE sent by David Irving in March 1978 to 100 newspapers and magazines 81 DUKE STREET LONDON W.1
TELEPHONE 01-499 9409 Do not use before 9th March 1978 New Nazi Document Shows Hitler Ordered “No Final Solution” Archivists in Washington and West Germany have simultaneously discovered a document , long thought destroyed in 1946, which quotes Hitler as ordering a postponement of the Solution of the Jewish Question until after the war was over.
This strongly bears out one central hypothesis of my June 1977 book Hitler’s War , that Hitler did not order the Final Solution and was unaware that it was going on. On 1st February the U.S. National Archives sent me the document, unable to explain why it was missing from the Reich Justice ministry exhibit USA-923 used at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946.
However, leading West German historian Professor Eberhard Jäckel, of Stuttgart university (phone 207 35 84), simultaneously found the document in the original Reich Justice ministry file entitled “Behandlung der Juden” (Treatment of the Jews) in Koblenz, containing papers dated from late 1941 to April 1942.
He sent it to me, and I identified the handwritten address at its foot as State-Secretary (Roland) Freisler, who attended the infamous Wannsee Conference in January 1942, became President of the People’s Court, and was killed in a Berlin air raid in February 1945.
The document records an inter-ministerial message from the Chief of the Reich Chancellery, Dr Hans Lammers, (Hitler’s top civil servant), to a Justice ministry official: “Reich Minister Lammers informed me that the Führer has repeatedly pronounced to him that he wants the Solution of the Jewish Question put off until after the war is over.
This means that all the current deliberations are, in Reich Minister Lammers’ view, of purely academic value; but he is going to do his utmost to ensure that no decisions on principal are reached as a result of surprise briefings conducted by third parties without his knowledge.” (David Irving) 6th March 1978 Naomi Bliven, Esq., The New Yorker magazine, New York, N.Y. USA Naomi Bliven had written a sympathetic, multi-page review of Hitler’s War in the New Yorker.
The press release was widely published and quoted from. 1999