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   Nazi testimony regarding exterminations   
      
   Note: The fact file series is intended to present facts of history,   
   free from the polemics and misinformation so often presented in this   
   medium. Hopefully the facts contained herein will serve the cause of   
   truth in history.   
      
   Note to educators and students: This fact file presents the actual   
   words and opinions of various members of the Nazi leadership as well   
   as numerous Nazi war heroes. The purpose of this presentation is to   
   counter the claims that the Nazi leadership fully acknowledged that   
   plans to extermination the Jews of Europe existed. As is evident from   
   this Fact File, most of the top Nazi leadership claimed to have no   
   knowledge of such plans and showed genuine disbelief at such charges.   
   This Fact File is not totally inclusive. Those quoted may have   
   expressed other opinions at other times and of course other   
   individuals made differing comments.   
   Don Van Handel (DonVH@aol.com)   
      
   (Regarding an Allied radio broadcast announcement that the Jews were   
   being exterminated): Really, the Jews should be grateful to me for   
   wanting nothing more than a bit of hard work from them.   
   Adolf Hitler   
      
   In order to put a stop to the epidemics, we were forced to burn the   
   bodies of incalculable numbers of people who been destroyed by   
   disease. We were therefore forced to build crematoria, and on this   
   account they are knotting a noose for us.   
   Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler   
      
   Well, I knew they were being transported to the East, and understood   
   that they were being set up in camps with their own administration,   
   and eventually would settle somewhere in the East. Ð I don't know. Ð I   
   had no idea that it would lead to extermination in any literal sense.   
   We just wanted to take them out of German political life.   
   Alfred Rosenberg Ð leading Nazi theoretician   
      
   I was never so close to Hitler as to have him express himself to me on   
   [Nazi extermination camps] . I always thought that [concentration   
   camps] were places where people were put to useful work. Those   
   pictures that you showed me yesterday [of Dachau] must depict things   
   that happened in the final few days.   
   Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering   
      
      
   (After being shown films of Buchenwald:) I don't believe it!   
   Deputy of the Führer Rudolf Hess   
      
   They refuse to believe me when I tell them that I have never even seen   
   a concentration camp. I add that if excesses have been committed they   
   are regrettable and reprehensible, and the real culprits should be   
   punished. I point out that such cruelties have been perpetrated not   
   only by our people, but by all peoples in every age. I remind them of   
   the Boer War. Therefore these excesses must be judged by the same   
   criterion. I cannot imagine that the mounds of corpses depicted in the   
   photographs were taken in concentration camps. I tell them that we   
   have seen such sights, not on film, but in fact, after the air attacks   
   on Dresden and Hamburg and other cities when Allied four engined   
   bombers deluged them indiscriminately with phosphorus and high   
   explosive bombs and countless women and children were massacred.   
   Hans Ulrich Rudel  First and only soldier to be awarded the Golden   
   Oakleaves with Swords and Diamonds to the Knight's Cross of the Iron   
   Cross.   
      
   How can they accuse me of knowing of such things? They ask why I   
   didn't go to Himmler to check on the concentration camps. Why that's   
   preposterous! He would have kicked me out just as I would have kicked   
   him out if he came to investigate the navy! What in God's name did I   
   have to do with these things?   
   Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz   
      
      
   Do you think I had the slightest notion about gas wagons and such   
   horrors?   
   Wilhelm Funk, Finance Minister   
      
   I never found out anything about any of this ... [It] is because of   
   newspaper propaganda. I told you when I saw the newspaper headline   
   'Gas Chamber Expert Captured' and an American lieutenant explained it   
   to me, I was pale with amazement. How can they say such things about   
   me? I told you I was only in charge of the Intelligence Service from   
   1943 on. The British even admitted that they tried to assassinate me   
   because of that not because of having anything to do with atrocities,   
   you can be sure of that.   
   Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of Police   
      
   But for millions of non-Germans, the Germans are brutes, capable of   
   anything. That summary judgment, born of invented horrors laid to the   
   Germans in 1914, has remained in the subconscious of the public. Let   
   the occasion arise again, and that mentality is reborn at once, as we   
   saw in 1940-1945. Anything at all will be believed if it is charged to   
   the Germans. Whether it's a question of gas chambers in which, to   
   believe the figures of the accusers, the victims would have to have   
   been crowded together thirty-two persons per square meter twenty-four   
   hours a day; or whether a description is being given to you of the   
   crematory furnaces which, if they had to burn up all the bodies   
   assigned to them by the Jewish propaganda, would still be working at   
   full capacity in the year 2050, or even 2080. When it's a matter of   
   denigrating Germans, nothing need be verified.   
   Leon Degrelle   
      
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