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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThis essay by Peter Rushton was first published in January 2022 to celebrate the award of the Robert Faurisson International Prize to Monika Schaefer and Alfred Schaefer<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n After fifty-four months of titanic struggle, waged on both sides with unexampled fury, An extensive interview with the late Professor Robert Faurisson entitled \u2018The Gas Chambers: Truth or Lie?\u2019 appeared in August 1979\u2019s edition of the popular Italian magazine Storia Illustrata<\/em> (\u2018History Illustrated\u2019), owned by the leading publishing house Mondadori. It now appears for the first time in proper English translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The questions and answers address numerous aspects of \u2018the Holocaust\u2019 in a detailed and serious manner, a venture sadly impossible on the part of any mainstream journal in 2022: free discussion of this topic is proscribed on pain of long imprisonment in many countries, and effectively forbidden by academic and media self-censorship in almost all others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This essay written to accompany the newly published piece from those bygone freer times will focus on one particular detail, where Faurisson quotes from a still-controversial document \u2013 The Testament of Adolf Hitler<\/em> \u2013 that purports to record comments made by Hitler across several dates in February 1945 and on 2nd April 1945. (In a footnote added in 1997, Faurisson partly retracts these quotations, since he had come to regard the document in question as probably inauthentic.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Published first in French translation as Le Testament politique de Hitler<\/em> in 1959, in English excerpts that year for Daily Express<\/em> serialisation, then two years later as a book in English \u2013 The Testament of Adolf Hitler: The Hitler-Bormann Documents, February-April 1945<\/em>, this controversial text was not issued in a German edition until 1981 \u2013 Hitlers politisches Testament<\/em>, usually known in German by its subtitle the Bormann-Diktate<\/em> (\u201cBormann Dictations\u201d). I shall refer to it in this essay as The Testament<\/em>, but it should not be confused with Hitler\u2019s \u201clast will and testament\u201d, which he dictated to his secretary Traudl Junge and signed at 4 am on 29th April 1945 in the Berlin bunker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In format and provenance, The Testament<\/em> could be regarded as a \u2018sequel\u2019 to the far better known Hitler\u2019s Table Talk<\/em> (first published in German as Tischgespr\u00e4che im F\u00fchrerhauptquartier<\/em>), a record of comments made by the F\u00fchrer to his inner circle, beginning in the summer of 1941 and ending in late 1944.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Testament<\/em> is quoted by Faurisson when answering his interviewer\u2019s question on pp. 10-11 (as originally printed) of \u2018The Gas Chambers: Truth or Lie?\u2019 The Professor states: \u201cNever did Hitler order or allow that anyone should be killed on account of his race or religion.\u201d In the same paragraph he acknowledges that \u201cHitler was anti-Jewish and racist\u201d, but suggests that he was \u201cagainst colonialism\u201d \u2013 and it is on this latter point that he quotes from The Testament<\/em>, recording that on 7th February 1945 Hitler said to his close collaborators:1<\/a><\/sup>While not specified in the interview, these words about colonialism are from Fran\u00e7ois Genoud (ed.), The Testament of Adolf Hitler: The Hitler-Bormann Documents, February-April 1945<\/em>, tr. R.H. Stevens (Cassell, 1959), p. 44.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe white races did, of course, give some things to the natives, and they were the worst gifts that they could possibly have made, those plagues of our own modern world \u2013 materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism and syphilis. For the rest, since these peoples possessed qualities of their own which were superior to anything we could offer them, they have remained essentially unchanged. [\u2026] One solitary success must be conceded to the colonisers: everywhere they have succeeded in arousing hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1997 Faurisson added a correction to his copy of the 1979 interview: \u201con reflection, this book seems to me to be a forgery for which Fran\u00e7ois Genoud, recently deceased, may be responsible. British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper states in his long preface that the text is indubitably authentic. In my opinion he is mistaken.\u201d (Hugh Trevor-Roper, later Lord Dacre (1914-2003), was one of the most eminent British historians of the 20th century. From 1957 to 1980 he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n By happy coincidence, today\u2019s English translation of the interview (including its 1997 amendments) comes at a time when it is possible to re-examine the contents and authenticity of The Testament<\/em> and the respective roles of the Swiss banker Fran\u00e7ois Genoud and Trevor-Roper. The Swedish scholar Dr Mikael Nilsson has devoted several years to a detailed study of both Hitler\u2019s Table Talk<\/em> and The Testament<\/em>. He is very critical of Genoud and Trevor-Roper and concludes that neither text is reliable. After several articles on the topic in academic journals, Nilsson has now published a 400-page book2<\/a><\/sup>Mikael Nilsson, Hitler Redux: The Incredible Story of Hitler\u2019s So-Called Table Talks<\/em> (Routledge, 2021).<\/span> denouncing the purported Hitler transcripts: Hitler Redux: The Incredible Story of Hitler\u2019s So-Called Table Talks<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, Nilsson did not have the benefit of studying a British document on this matter3<\/a><\/sup>PREM 11\/3062. Unless indicated otherwise, all catalogue references in these footnotes refer to documents consulted by the author at the UK National Archives.<\/span>: a document that remained secret for more than sixty years and was only released to the UK National Archives in January 2021 after he had already completed his book. It is not available online, but I have visited the National Archives at Kew to examine this document and other relevant material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The present essay is therefore the first attempt \u2013 in the light of this new archival discovery \u2013 to assess the authenticity of The Testament<\/em> and the conduct of Trevor-Roper. Even if we are unable to reach a definitive conclusion on the former point, the attempt to do so will take us on a historiographical journey that sheds light on numerous topics of interest for revisionists and for any honest scholar of the Third Reich\u2019s legacy to our times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We should first look at the timing of Faurisson\u2019s decision in 1997 to correct his earlier statement and express strong doubts about The Testament<\/em>. We should bear in mind that during the mid-1990s the revisionist community had been riven by a bitter and costly dispute within what was then by far the most influential and best-funded revisionist organisation \u2013 the Institute for Historical Review (IHR). Though Faurisson was not personally involved in the lawsuits, he found himself aligned with the IHR faction opposed to its co-founder Willis Carto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is relevant to the present matter because in becoming critical of Carto, the Professor\u2019s critical attention could hardly avoid being drawn to the aforementioned Genoud. Central to the dispute between Carto and his former associate Mark Weber (who eventually won control of the IHR) was the question of a legacy from Mrs Jean Farrel, an American widow who latterly lived in Switzerland. It was revealed in court4<\/a><\/sup>Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Inc. vs Willis Carto et al., Superior Court of the State of 4 Having had little reason previously to look closely at Genoud or the extent to which his past record might lead one to look askance at The Testament<\/em>, Prof. Faurisson now had special reasons for doing so \u2013 being a man devoted to intellectual consistency, he could not doubt Genoud\u2019s honesty in one field without at least questioning it in another. Moreover, on the one occasion when he could discuss the matter face to face with Genoud, Faurisson had been concerned5<\/a><\/sup>Private information.<\/span> to discover that the latter did not have access to the original German documents on which The Testament<\/em> was based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though he never had the opportunity to carry out detailed research on the topic, Faurisson is far from alone in doubting The Testament<\/em>\u2019s authenticity. Among the sceptics (though most historians still regard the text as genuine) are two very different Englishmen who are also two of the world\u2019s leading experts on Hitler \u2013 David Irving and Sir Ian Kershaw. Irving states on his website6<\/a><\/sup>www.fpp.co.uk\/Hitler\/docs\/Testament\/GenoudMS.html<\/span> that in 1979 Genoud gave him a copy of The Testament\u2019s typescript and later admitted to him that he had in effect made the whole thing up, with the excuse: \u201cBut it is just what Hitler would have said, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (There had been some controversy during 19927<\/a><\/sup>Brian Cathcart, \u2018Who has the right to publish the diaries\u2019, Independent on Sunday, 5th July 1992; and Rosie Waterhouse et al., \u2018Irving back to anti-Nazi fury\u2019, Independent on Sunday, 12th July 1992.<\/span> over rights to the Joseph Goebbels diaries: Genoud claimed he owned the copyright, but after a complete text of the diaries was discovered in a Moscow archive, the Sunday Times<\/em> went ahead and published extracts \u2013 paying Irving a fee for his essential assistance but nothing to Genoud. Even in 2015, almost twenty years after his death, copyright disputes linked to Genoud involving National Socialist diaries and other documents continued to trouble the courts.8<\/a><\/sup>Roger Kimball, \u2018Suing to Profit from a Nazi\u2019s Diaries\u2019, Wall Street Journal, 16th July 2015.<\/span>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile and less definitely, Irving\u2019s fellow historian Kershaw wrote9<\/a><\/sup>Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, pp. 1024-1025 (Allen Lane, 2000).<\/span> (while curiously misstating the date of The Testament<\/em>\u2019s discovery and publication), taking a cautionary if not sceptical line: From the standpoint of a believer in orthodox Holocaustianity, it is easy to see why the contents of The Testament<\/em> are problematic: if one\u2019s a priori<\/em> assumption is that Adolf Hitler ordered the systematic murder of six million Jews in homicidal gas chambers, then one might expect to find \u2013 if not specific references to this mass killing \u2013 at least some firm evidence pointing to the fact of these mass killings and\/or homicidal mania in general. All the more so when there is an entire section of The Testament<\/em> devoted to the Jewish Question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some mainstream exterminationists have quoted or paraphrased The Testament<\/em> to imply (falsely) that it does contain such evidence. For example the Dutch historian Annemarike Stremmelaar (from Leiden University\u2019s Centre for the Study of Islam) has written11<\/a><\/sup>Annemarike Stremmelaar, \u2018Reading Anne Frank: Confronting Antisemitism in Turkish Communities\u2019, in Evelien Gans and Remco Ensel (eds.), The Holocaust, Israel and ‘the Jew’: Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society<\/em> (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), pp. 472-473.<\/span> about a 2013 Dutch television programme that became famous for \u2018exposing\u2019 the scale of \u2018antisemitism\u2019 among Turkish pupils in Dutch schools. In a filmed interview one boy says: \u201cWhat Hitler said about the Jews is that there will be one day when you will prove me right that I killed all the Jews. Yes, that day will come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Stremmelaar writes that no-one has yet been able to trace the origin of this boy\u2019s statement, \u201cso far it has been impossible to trace it back to either Islamist or neo-Nazi media\u201d, but she notes: Is there any such statement attributed to Hitler in The Testament<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 5 of The Testament<\/em> purports to record the F\u00fchrer\u2019s comments about Jewry12<\/a><\/sup>Fran\u00e7ois Genoud (ed.), The Testament of Adolf Hitler: The Hitler-Bormann Documents, February-April 1945<\/em>, tr. R.H. Stevens (Cassell, 1959), pp. 50ff.<\/span> on 13th February 1945, beginning as follows: One can see that exterminationists might assume that having defined the Jew as a parasite, Hitler is implying that Jews had to be wiped out, but The Testament<\/em>\u2019s next paragraphs should be read carefully: These are not the words of someone who has systematically murdered six million Jews \u2013 rather what he has set out to destroy is Jewish power (cultural, political and economic) in Germany. The war of physical destruction referred to in The Testament<\/em> has been waged by Jewry against Germany. Hitler later in the same monologue digressed on the topic of German racial pride,13<\/a><\/sup>ibid., pp. 53-55.<\/span> before returning to the Jewish question: Hitler indicated that in their own ways both the Prussians and the Austrians were different from other Germans in having developed a very particular sense of racial\/cultural pride, before describing what he saw as his movement\u2019s central mission: Turning back to the original subject Hitler continued:14<\/a><\/sup>ibid., pp. 55-57.<\/span> In the German edition the sentence \u201cI have always been absolutely fair in my dealings with the Jews\u201d is rendered differently, with a metaphor which (as Nilsson points out) was also employed by Hitler in a different context in Mein Kampf<\/em>. The German text has Hitler saying: Ich habe die Juden mit offenem Visier gek\u00e4mpft<\/em> (\u201cI have fought the Jews with an open visor\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n One can see how the latter two paragraphs could (to a committed exterminationist or even just to a casual reader) be seen as amounting to an admission by Adolf Hitler that his Third Reich had set out to exterminate Jewry in a literal, physical sense \u2013 i.e. by the mass murder of Jews qua<\/em> Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet bear in mind that he is speaking in February 1945 when Germany\u2019s defeat was all but certain. By this time all of the alleged \u2018death camps\u2019 \u2013 including the main alleged \u2018killing factory\u2019 of Auschwitz-Birkenau \u2013 were already in Soviet hands. Quite clearly, barring a miracle (which given the course of geopolitical affairs and the already incipient Cold War was by no means impossible) Germany had not exterminated Jewry, rather Jewry and its allies were about to wipe Germany off the map. The territory of Hitler\u2019s Reich (indeed the territory of traditional pre-Hitler Germany) was soon to be divided among six states: the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, East Germany and West Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So Hitler\u2019s words here cannot amount to a proud admission that he had warned the Jews of their impending extermination and had proceeded to carry it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What his purported words in The Testament<\/em> do mean to any careful reader is that National Socialism had identified a Jewish problem and had brought it to the surface. In response Jews had ceased being circumspect about their power and had openly proclaimed it, had blatantly declared their international war on Germany. And in response to this aggression, Hitler had warned them that they risked disaster for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A passing reference15<\/a><\/sup>ibid., p. 77.<\/span> on 18th February 1945 underlines this point: Hitler was not deluded: he knew that Germany was (almost certainly) about to lose the war. But he could still claim to have \u201clanced the Jewish abscess\u201d in the sense that the underlying poison had been released for all the world to see, and in this sense the future world would be grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right or wrong, and whether the text is genuine or a forgery, this is The Testament<\/em>\u2019s evaluation of the war between National-Socialism and World Jewry \u2013 and it is an evaluation that fails to bolster the orthodox \u2018Holocaust\u2019 narrative, indeed arguably contradicts it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neither is there any support for the Holocaustian narrative in a passage dated 24th February 1945,18<\/a><\/sup>ibid., pp. 87ff.<\/span> where Hitler discusses international Jewry in the context of the USA: Note that here Hitler implicitly contradicts other statements that he makes in The Testament<\/em>, to the effect that once a German transplanted himself to the USA he ceased to be a German and in fact became the enemy of his native land. Far from being evidence against the authenticity of The Testament<\/em>, it seems to me that such contradictions help validate the text as at least a reasonably accurate record of the F\u00fchrer\u2019s spontaneous remarks as he turned over in his mind Germany\u2019s increasingly desperate situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He continues: Hitler concluded that the na\u00efve new American nation had been \u201can easy prey for the Jews\u201d and that US involvement in the war had been against its interests: Nilsson partly acknowledges19<\/a><\/sup>Nilsson, Hitler Redux<\/em>, p. 311.<\/span> that \u201cthese passages are not really any more of an admission of genocide than some of the statements recorded in the Table Talks<\/em>. After all, Hitler is not speaking about gassing millions of Jews to death in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other camps or shooting thousands of Jews to death; these passages could just as well be interpreted as metaphoric, cultural, political, or spiritual extermination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elsewhere Nilsson regards some of The Testament<\/em>\u2019s comments about Jews as evidence that the text is inauthentic. While there is no denying the depth and sincerity of Nilsson\u2019s scholarship, there are numerous points where he is led into an over-dogmatic interpretation. Inadvertently, with his righteous \u2018anti-nazi\u2019 certainty he sometimes reveals the weakness of the exterminationist position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As noted above, in the alleged 13th February text Hitler refers to the Jews as \u201cfirst and foremost an abstract race of the mind\u201d or a \u201cspiritually homogeneous group\u201d (rendered in the German version as \u201cGemeinschaft des Geistes\u201d), and states that \u201cin reality and from the genetic point of view there is no such thing as the Jewish race\u201d. Nilsson however insists that \u201cthis goes against everything we know about Hitler\u2019s views on the topic from all other sources\u201d. In Mein Kampf<\/em>, for example, Hitler had put the opposite case \u2013 that the Jews were a race and did not have the necessary idealistic character to become a spiritual community \u2013 and Nilsson quotes evidence that he had repeated this view as late as 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Nilsson this amounts to conclusive proof that \u201cthis statement [in The Testament<\/em>] cannot have been made by Hitler.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet this appears to be another assumption by Nilsson that the F\u00fchrer was a fanatic with a fixed ideology (especially as concerned Jews) \u2013 an assumption commonly found among the \u2018intentionalist\u2019 school of \u2018Holocaust\u2019 historians who maintain that a policy of mass homicide towards European Jewry can be traced from Mein Kampf<\/em> all the way to 1945\u2019s G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung<\/em>. Nilsson goes on to speculate that refusing to define the Jews as a race would (from a National Socialist standpoint) help to undermine the case for a Zionist State. Therefore, he argues:20<\/a><\/sup>ibid., p. 328.<\/span> Actually one could use Nilsson\u2019s own argument against him here, since we know that (partly for reasons of realpolitik<\/em>) policy towards Zionism changed several times during the Third Reich. It is true that at one stage National Socialist policy was to encourage Jewish emigration to Palestine (and by extension to encourage Zionist organisations within Germany). Yet at other times the Zionist idea was explicitly denounced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example in Mein Kampf<\/em>, Hitler famously wrote:21<\/a><\/sup>Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf<\/em>, tr. Ralph Manheim, (Pimlico, 1992), p. 294.<\/span> Nevertheless, in a Munich speech on 6th July 1920 Hitler stated22<\/a><\/sup>Francis Nicosia, \u2018Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy in Germany, 1933-39\u2019, Journal of Modern History<\/em>, Vol. 50 No. 4, on demand supplement (December 1978), p. D1259.<\/span> that the Jews belonged in Palestine, and only there could they expect full rights as citizens; and Julius Streicher in an address to the Bavarian Landtag on 20th April 192623<\/a><\/sup>ibid.<\/span> argued that German Jews should emigrate to Palestine. 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Ursula Haverbeck, Lady Mich\u00e8le Renouf and Isabel Peralta:
Defenders of the right to historical truth \u2013
Champions of European civilisation\u2019s essential values.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
the German people now finds itself alone, facing a coalition sworn to destroy it.
War is raging everywhere along our frontiers. It is coming closer and ever closer.
Our enemies are gathering all their forces for the final assault. Their object is not
merely to defeat us in battle but to crush and annihilate us. Their object is to
destroy our Reich, to sweep our Weltanschauung from the face of the earth, to
enslave the German people \u2013 as a punishment for their loyalty to National
Socialism. We have reached the final quarter of an hour.
The situation is serious, very serious. It seems even to be desperate. We might
easily give way to fatigue, to exhaustion, we might allow ourselves to become
discouraged to an extent that blinds us to the weaknesses of our enemies. But these
weaknesses are there, for all that. We have facing us an incongruous coalition,
drawn together by hatred and jealousy and cemented by the panic with which the
National Socialist doctrine fills this Jew-ridden motley. Face to face with this
amorphous monster, our one chance is to depend on ourselves and ourselves alone; to
oppose this heterogenous rabble with a national, homogenous entity, animated by a
courage which no adversity will be able to shake. A people which resists as the
German people is now resisting can never be consumed in a witches\u2019 cauldron of
this kind. On the contrary; it will emerge from the crucible with its soul more
steadfast, more intrepid than ever. Whatever reverses we may suffer in the days that
lie ahead of us, the German people will draw fresh strength from them; and
whatever may happen today, it will live to know a glorious tomorrow.
The will to exterminate which goads these dogs in the pursuit of their quarry gives us no
option; it indicates the path which we must follow \u2013 the only path that remains open to
us. We must continue the struggle with the fury of desperation and without a glance
over our shoulders; with our faces always to the enemy, we must defend step by step the
soil of our fatherland. While we keep fighting, there is always hope, and that, surely,
should be enough to forbid us to think that all is already lost. No game is lost until the
final whistle. And if, in spite of everything, the Fates have decreed that we should once
more in the course of our history be crushed by forces superior to our own, then let us go
down with our heads high and secure in the knowledge that the honour of the German
people remains without blemish. A desperate fight remains for all time a shining
example. Let us remember Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans! In any case, we
are not of the stuff that goes tamely to the slaughter like sheep. They may well
exterminate us. But they will never lead us to the slaughter house!
No! There is no such thing as a desperate situation! Think how many examples of
a turn of fortune the history of the German people affords! During the Seven Years\u2019
War, Frederick found himself reduced to desperate straits. During the winter of
1762 he had decided that if no change occurred by a certain date fixed by himself, he
would end his life by taking poison. Then, a few days before the date he had chosen,
behold, the Tsarina died unexpectedly, and the whole situation was miraculously
reversed. Like the great Frederick, we, too, are combating a coalition, and a coalition,
remember, is not a stable entity. It exists only by the will of a handful of men. If
Churchill were suddenly to disappear, everything could change in a flash! The British
aristocracy might perhaps become conscious of the abyss opening before them \u2013 and
might well experience a serious shock! These British, for whom, indirectly, we have
been fighting and who would enjoy the fruits of our victory\u2026.
We can still snatch victory in the final sprint! May we be granted the time to do so!
All we must do is to refuse to go down. For the German people, the simple fact of
continued independent life would be a victory. And that alone would be sufficient
justification for this war, which would not have been in vain. It was in any case
unavoidable; the enemies of German National Socialism forced it upon me as long
ago as January 1933.<\/em>
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California in and for the County of San Diego, transcript, 8th November 1996.<\/span> that as part of the complex process of securing the Farrel legacy, Willis Carto had paid $800,000 to Genoud, a man with high-level contacts dating back more than fifty years among veteran National Socialists. (Genoud died aged 80 in May 1996.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/David-Irving-at-TNA.jpeg?resize=353%2C314&ssl=1\")
\u201cThe tone of the monologues is unmistakably that of Hitler. The themes are familiar, as are the rambling style and the discursive dips into history. There is talk, among other topics: of Churchill\u2019s responsibility (influenced by Jews) for the war; of Britain\u2019s rejection of German peace-offers which would have enabled the destruction of Bolshevism and saved the British Empire; of an unnatural coalition aiming to destroy Germany, a will to exterminate which gave the German people no other choice but to continue the struggle; of the example of Frederick the Great; of the need for eastward expansion, not the quest for colonies; of exposing to the world \u2018the Jewish peril\u2019 and of his warning to Jews on the eve of the war; of the timing and necessity of the war against the Soviet Union; of the difficulties caused for Germany by Italy\u2019s weakness and blunders; of regrets that Japan did not enter the war against Russia in 1941, and the inevitability that the United States would enter the war against Germany; of the missed chance of going to war in 1938, which would have given Germany an advantage; of time always being against Germany; of being compelled to wage war as Europe\u2019s last hope; and of the need to uphold the racial laws, and claim on gratitude for having eliminated Jews from Germany and central Europe. [Yet note below that in fact The Testament<\/em> does not speak of physically eliminating Jews.] The monologues have a self-justificatory ring to them. They are intended for posterity, establishing a place in history. They have a reflective readiness \u2013 unusual, if not unique, for Hitler \u2013 to contemplate responsibility for errors, for example, in policy towards Italy and Spain.
\u201cThe monologues were not, as those from 1941\u20134 were, the product of musings during meals attended by others in his entourage, or during the \u2018tea hours\u2019 with his secretaries. Neither a secretary nor anyone else mentioned them at the time, or apparently knew they were being compiled. Gerda Christian (formerly Daranowski), writing to Christa Schroeder long after the war,10<\/a><\/sup>The former Gerda Daranowski wrote to Christa Schroeder on 19th March 1975, and is quoted in Christa Schroeder, He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler\u2019s Secretary<\/em> (English edition, Pen & Sword, 2009). Her comments seem directed at the Table Talk<\/em> (more particularly the claims of its editor Henry Picker that Hitler had given him exclusive rights to write up these comments). Gerda Daranowski \/ Christian wrote: \u201cYou know how he (Hitler) hated having his thoughts committed to paper, i.e. he strictly forbade it. I remember one night at Wolfsschanze when after some highly interesting talk you said to him something like: \u2018I would like to have got that down in shorthand\u2019 and he replied: \u2018No, then I would not be able to speak so freely\u2019 etc. etc., do you remember?\u201d<\/span> did not regard them as authentic, though she accepted that they could be a compilation of Hitler\u2019s thoughts in the last months. She ruled out a possibility of Hitler summoning Bormann to dictate to him, pointing out from her own recollection how he hated verbatim accounts on paper of what he had said casually. The main problem with the authenticity of the text is that no reliable and certifiable German version exists. It is impossible, therefore, to be certain. A great deal has to be taken on trust; and even then no safe mechanism for checking is available.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/46824004674_82ce420486_o.png?resize=507%2C337&ssl=1\")
\u201cOne commentator wrote that Hitler\u2019s alleged quote \u2018one day you will prove me right that I killed all the Jews\u2019 is frequently used in Islamist propaganda. While conceding that it is unknown where the boy read the quote, the commentator assumes it is quite likely he read it in Islamist propaganda rather than in neo-Nazi literature. The original source may be the so-called Bormann-Diktate<\/em>, which Hitler supposedly dictated to his secretary Bormann in the final weeks of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Martin-Bormann.jpeg?resize=296%2C361&ssl=1\")
\u201cIt is one of the achievements of National Socialism that it was the first to face the Jewish problem in a realistic manner.
\u201cThe Jews themselves have always aroused anti-semitism. Throughout the centuries, all the peoples of the world, from the ancient Egyptians to ourselves, have reacted in exactly the same way. The time comes when they become tired of being exploited by the disgusting Jew. They give a heave and shake themselves, like an animal trying to rid itself of its vermin. They react brutally and finally they revolt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNational Socialism has tackled the Jewish problem by action and not by words. It has risen in opposition to the Jewish determination to dominate the world; it has attacked them everywhere and in every sphere of activity; it has flung them out of the positions they have usurped; it has pursued them in every direction, determined to purge the German world of the Jewish poison. For us, this has been an essential process of disinfection, which we have prosecuted to its ultimate limit and without which we should ourselves have been asphyxiated and destroyed.
\u201cWith the success of the operation in Germany, there was a good chance of extending it further afield. This was, in fact, inevitable, for good health normally triumphs over disease. Quick to realize the danger, the Jews decided to stake their all in the life and death struggle which they launched against us. National Socialism had to be destroyed, whatever the cost and even if the whole world were destroyed in the process. Never before has there been a war so typically and at the same time so exclusively Jewish.
\u201cI have at least compelled them to discard their masks. And even if our endeavours should end in failure, it will only be a temporary failure. For I have opened the eyes of the whole world to the Jewish peril.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/46824002964_0f8f2ce570_o.jpg?resize=416%2C282&ssl=1\")
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This angle is pursued further in the following paragraph:
\u201cOne of the consequences of our attitude has been to cause the Jew to become aggressive. As a matter of fact, he is less dangerous in that frame of mind than when he is sly and cunning. The Jew who openly avows his race is a hundred times preferable to the shameful type which claims to differ from you only in the matter of religion. If I win this war, I shall put an end to Jewish world power and I shall deal the Jews a mortal blow from which they will not recover. But if I lose the war, that does not by any means mean that their triumph is assured, for then they themselves will lose their heads. They will become so arrogant that they will evoke a violent reaction against them. They will, of course, continue to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, to claim the privileges of citizenship in every country and, without sacrificing their pride, continue to remain, above all, members of the Chosen Race. The shifty, the shamefaced Jew will disappear and will be replaced by a Jew vainglorious and bombastic; and the latter will stink just as objectionably as the former \u2013 and perhaps even more so. There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AH-in-Prussian-tradition.png?resize=400%2C248&ssl=1\")
\u201c\u2026When pride of race manifests itself in a German, as it sometimes does and in a most aggressive form, it is in reality nothing more than a compensatory reaction for that inferiority complex from which so many Germans suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn its crucible National Socialism will melt and fuse all those qualities which are characteristic of the German soul; and from it will emerge the modern German \u2013 industrious, conscientious, sure of himself yet simple withal, proud not of himself or what he is, but of his membership of a great entity which will evoke the admiration of other peoples. This feeling of corporate superiority does not in any way imply the slightest desire to crush and overwhelm others. We have, I know, on occasions exaggerated our cult of this sentiment, but that was necessary at the outset and we were compelled to jostle the Germans pretty roughly in order to set their feet on the right road. In the nature of things, too violent a thrust in any direction invariably produces an equally violent thrust in the opposite direction. All this, of course, cannot be accomplished in a day. It requires the slow-moving pressure of time. Frederick the Great is the real creator of the Prussian type. In actual fact, two or three generations elapsed before the type crystallised and before the Prussian type became a characteristic common to every Prussian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur racial pride is not aggressive except in so far as the Jewish race is concerned. We use the term Jewish race as a matter of convenience, for in reality and from the genetic point of view there is no such thing as the Jewish race. There does, however, exist a community, to which, in fact, the term can be applied and the existence of which is admitted by the Jews themselves. It is the spiritually homogenous group, to membership of which all Jews throughout the world deliberately adhere, regardless of their whereabouts and of their country of domicile; and it is this group of human beings to which we give the title Jewish race. It is not, mark you, a religious entity, although the Hebrew religion serves them as a pretext to present themselves as such; nor indeed is it even a collection of groups, united by the bonds of a common religion.
\u201cThe Jewish race is first and foremost an abstract race of the mind. It has its origins, admittedly, in the Hebrew religion, and that religion, too, has had a certain influence in moulding its general characteristics; for all that, however, it is in no sense of the word a purely religious entity, for it accepts on equal terms both the most determined atheists and the most sincere, practising believers. To all this must be added the bond that has been forged by centuries of persecution \u2013 though the Jews conveniently forget that it is they themselves who provoked these persecutions. Nor does Jewry possess the anthropological characteristics which would stamp them as a homogeneous race. It cannot, however, be denied that every Jew in the world has some drops of purely Jewish blood in him. Were this not so, it would be impossible to explain the presence of certain physical characteristics which are permanently common to all Jews from the ghetto of Warsaw to the bazaars of Morocco \u2013 the offensive nose, the cruel vicious nostrils and so on.
\u201cA race of the mind is something more solid, more durable than just a race, pure and simple. Transplant a German to the United States and you turn him into an American. But the Jew remains a Jew wherever he goes, a creature which no environment can assimilate. It is the characteristic mental make-up of his race which renders him impervious to the processes of assimilation. And there in a nutshell is the proof of the superiority of the mind over the flesh!\u2026
\u201cThe quite amazing ascendancy which they achieved during the course of the nineteenth century gave the Jews a sense of their own power and caused them to drop the mask; and it is just that that has given us the chance to oppose them as Jews, self-proclaimed and proud of the fact. And when you remember how credulous the Germans are, you will realize that we must be most grateful for this sudden excess of frankness on the part of our most mortal enemies.
\u201cI have always been absolutely fair in my dealings with the Jews. On the eve of war, I gave them one final warning. I told them that, if they precipitated another war, they would not be spared and that I would exterminate the vermin throughout Europe, and this time once and for all. To this warning they retorted with a declaration of war and affirmed that wherever in the world there was a Jew, there, too, was an implacable enemy of National Socialist Germany.
\u201cWell, we have lanced the Jewish abscess; and the world of the future will be eternally grateful to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Jewish-wirepuller.jpeg?resize=412%2C600&ssl=1\")
\u201cIt was only in 191516<\/a><\/sup>Although the USA did not declare war on Germany until 1917, Hitler is evidently referring here to President Woodrow Wilson\u2019s intervention in February 1915 effectively taking the British side in insisting that the German Navy could not interfere with neutral shipping; and the subsequent German sinking of the Lusitania, a civilian liner secretly carrying British war munitions.<\/span> that World Jewry decided to place the whole of its resources at the disposal of the Allies. But in our case, Jewry decided as early as 1933, at the very birth of the Third Reich, tacitly to declare war on us.17<\/a><\/sup>Note Hitler\u2019s word \u2018tacitly\u2019: while recognising that the policy of World Jewry\u2019s leaders was settled as early as 1933, he does not place undue weight on the now-notorious Daily Express<\/em> headline of 24th March 1933 \u2018Judaea declares war on Germany\u2019.<\/span> Furthermore the influence wielded by the Jews in the United States has consistently and steadily increased during the last quarter of a century. And since the entry of the United States into the war was quite inevitable, it was a slice of great good fortune for us to have at our side an ally of such great worth as Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Judaea-Declares-War-on-Germany.jpeg?resize=579%2C271&ssl=1\")
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\u201cThe war against America is a tragedy. It is illogical and devoid of any foundation of reality.
\u201cIt is one of those queer twists of history that just as I was assuming power in Germany, Roosevelt, the elect of the Jews, was taking command in the United States. Without the Jews and without this lackey of theirs, things could have been quite different. For from every point of view Germany and the United States should have been able, if not to understand each other and sympathize with each other, then at least to support each other without undue strain on either of them. Germany, remember, has made a massive contribution to the peopling of America. It is we Germans who have made by far the greatest contribution of Nordic blood to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUnfortunately, the whole business is ruined by the fact that world Jewry has chosen just that country in which to set up its most powerful bastion. That, and that alone, has altered the relations between us and has poisoned everything.
\u201cI am prepared to wager that well within twenty-five years the Americans themselves will have realized what a handicap has been imposed upon them by this parasitic Jewry, clamped fast to their flesh and nourishing itself on their life-blood. It is this Jewry that is dragging them into adventures which, when all is said and done, are no concern of theirs and in which the interests at stake are of no importance to them. What possible reason can the non-Jewish Americans have for sharing the hatreds of the Jews and following meekly in their footsteps? One thing is quite certain \u2013 within a quarter of a century the Americans will either have become violently anti-semitic or they will be devoured by Jewry.
\u201cIf we should lose this war, it will mean that we have been defeated by the Jews. Their victory will then be complete. But let me hasten to add that it will only be very temporary. It will certainly not be Europe which takes up the struggle against them, but it certainly will be the United States. \u2026For the Americans, everything has so far been ridiculously easy. But experience and difficulties will perhaps cause them to mature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026to have flung them into the middle of a dog fight, as this criminal, Roosevelt, has done, was sheer lunacy. He, of course, has quite cynically taken advantage of their ignorance, their na\u00efvet\u00e9 and their credulity. He has made them see the world through the eye of Jewry, and he has set them on a path which will lead them to utter disaster, if they do not pull themselves together in time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Roosevelt-Morgenthau.jpg?resize=512%2C344&ssl=1\")
\u201cThe particular distortion of Hitler\u2019s view of the Jews actually fit [sic] perfectly into Genoud\u2019s political agenda to further Arabic nationalism, which has been well described in the biographies about him, since it could serve as a cogent argument against a Jewish nation-state: Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/large_000000.jpg?resize=400%2C320&ssl=1\")
\u201cWhile the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organisation for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks. It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, Frenchman, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n