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Posted Sunday, October 18,
1998

From
David Irving’s archive:

What
Did Adolf Hitler Do on the Night of Broken
Glass?

The
Urgent Circular that Rudolf Hess issued
on “orders from the highest level” that
night, November 10, 1938

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TRANSLATION:
“To all
Gauleiter HQs for Immediate Action!
Directive No. 174/38. Repeating
Telex of November 10, 1938. On
express orders from the very highest
level arson attacks on Jewish
business and such like are not to
occur under any circumstances or
conditions whatever…”

Nationalsozialistische
Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei

Der
Stellvertreter des
Führers

München
33, den
10. November 1938

An alle
Gauleitungen zur sofortigen
Veranlassung!A n o r d n u n g Nr.
174/38

(Wiederholung des Fernschreibens vom 10. Nov.1938)

Auf ausdrücklichen Befehl allerhöchster Stelle dürfen
Brand- legungen an jüdischen
Geschäften oder dergleichen auf gar keinen Fall und unter gar keinen
Umständen erfolgen.

i.A.

(Opdenhoff)

Verteiler:

Gauleiter

The document
was found in Berlin Document Center:
Ordner 240/1. ©
Focal Point Publications
1998.
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