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How Holocaust historians distort evidence to support the Big Lie

Reichsmarschall Herman Goering wrote his famous letter to SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich regarding the "final solution of the Jewish question" on July 31, 1942

"As supplement to the task that was entrusted to you in the decree dated January 24, 1939, namely to solve the Jewish question by emigration and evacuation in a way, which is the most favorable in connection with the conditions prevailing at the time, I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to organizational, factual, and financial viewpoints for a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories in Europe under German influence.

If the competency of other central organizations is touched in this connection, these organizations are to participate.

I further commission you to submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing the organizational, factual, and financial measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question."

Professor Arthur Butz notes in his 1976 book Hoax of the Twentieth Century

"It is customary to quote this (Goering's) letter with deletion of the reference to "emigration and evacuation.""

Professor Butz cites William Shirer's 1960 book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as an example:

Shirer clipped and uses ellipsis to make Goering's letter read:

"I herewith commission you [Goering instructed Heydrich] to carry out all preparations with regard to . . . a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence . . .

I further commission you to submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing the . . . measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question."

Military historian Dr. Joel Hayward, in his MA thesis, agreed with Professor Butz, Dr. Hayward wrote:

"The present writer has to agree that this is "customary": he examined thirty-eight near-at-hand books on the Holocaust and Second World War which mention this particular directive (Goering's letter July 31, 1942), and found that twenty-seven leave out the words "emigration and evacuation". They either quote just a fragment of the directive – usually the last line, so that it will read something like "on July 31, 1941, Göring directed Heydrich to solve «the final solution of the Jewish question» " – or they simply replace the three words, "emigration and evacuation", with an ellipsis (" ... ")."

Hayward cites some examples:

"To name just a few: M. Gilbert, The Holocaust, pp. 176, 177; M. Gilbert, Second World War (Terrey Hills, NSW: Peribo, 1989), p. 219; Toland, Adolf Hitler, p. 958; H. Höhne, The Order of the Death's Head: the Story of Hitler's SS Translated from the German by R. Barry (London/Sydney: Pan Books, 1972), p. 325; M. Marrus, The Holocaust in History, p. 32."

Dr. Joel Hayward quotes from his MA thesis, page 84, found through here

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