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The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler’s Personal Allies, by Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl (eds.) 2005. PublicAffairs, New York

All Jews Must Die a Myth. No Yalta Separate-Peace Excuse. Hitler’s Intense AntiSlavic Racism. Vertriebene

This dossier is the result of the interrogation, by the Soviet NKVD, of two SS officials who knew Hitler very well–Heinz Linge and Otto Gunsche. It offers a comprehensive history of WWII, with much attention devoted to the closing stages of the European war on the eastern front. There is discussion of the German boys sacrificed against the Soviets, the suicides of Goebbels and his family, and the self-destruction of the Fuhrer and burning of his body. (Hitler feared that the Soviets would turn him or his body into a public spectacle).

The editors use numerous footnotes that clarify and correct the issues raised by the NKVD. The Editors’ Afterword section provides extensive commentary, and the Notes include comprehensive biographical information on many Nazis (including dates of birth and death, and relevant postwar activities).

MANY GAY NAZIS

This dossier begins with a short, prewar history of Nazism: “The official version of the story was that Rohm had been executed for homosexuality, but Hitler concealed from the German people the fact that homosexuality was widely practiced and tolerated in the higher echelons of the National Socialist Party and the Hitler Youth.” (p. 6).

“ALL JEWS MUST DIE” A MYTH

Hitler is quoted, on April 17, 1943, of saying that Jews must either be annihilated or thrown into a concentration camp. (p. 114). If correct, this suggests that, even at this late date, Hitler wasn’t irrevocably committed to the extermination of every single possible Jew within his reach.

BOTH JEWISH AND POLISH FORCED LABORERS TO DIE. SLAVS TREATED WITH THE SAME CONTEMPT AS JEWS

Interestingly, Hitler had a purely utilitarian view of Slavs that matched that of his view of Jews, as illustrated by the Nazis’ use of both Slavic and Jewish forced laborers. Consider the former: “Filled with loathing Hitler remarked, ‘It is quite right to make Slavs do this, these robots! Otherwise they would have no right to their share of the sun!'”. (p. 102).

HITLER’S ANTISLAVIC RACISM EQUALLED HIS ANTI-BLACK RACISM

The following was Hitler’s reaction to Britain’s declaration of war against Germany that followed the Nazi German attack on Poland: “It is disgraceful to present Czechs and Poles as sovereign states when this rabble is not a jot better than the Sudanese or the Indians…” (pp. 47-48).

For further evidence of Hitler’s racism against Poles being as great, or even greater, than his racism against blacks, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/polokaust-orwellian-minimization-rutherford/

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/german-caused-genocides-long-before-hitler-olusoga/

OPERATION BARBAROSSA WAS NOT JUST A MILITARY CAMPAIGN: IT WAS GENOCIDE

At the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Germans fought under the lebensraum slogan: “Bash the Russians’ brains in…We need the Russian expanses without Russians!” (p. 76).

The editors cite an eventual figure of 11.27 million Soviet military deaths, but add: “On the other hand, it is mentioned only in a few places that the campaign against the Soviet Union was also a racially motivated war of annihilation, which claimed the lives of 18.4 million civilians. This war of annihilation was carried out above all by the SS, but a politically-indoctrinated Wehrmacht played its part.” (p. 300). Combining these figures with others (e. g., the 3-4 million murdered Polish gentiles), it is obvious that the Germans’ genocide of Slavs was greater than that of Jews (5-6 million). Considering this metric, the reader realizes that Jews and Slavs were indeed unequal victims–with Slavs the greater victims.

SLAVS–AND NOT ONLY JEWS–EXPLOITED FOR TOOTH FILLINGS

Some proponents of Holocaust uniqueness have implied that the Nazis’ disrespect and exploitation of the dead, as exemplified by the removal of tooth fillings, was done only to Jews. We learn instead that it was also done to Slavs–including living ones.  Blaschke, Hitler’s personal dentist, obtained crowns, bridges, and gold teeth that had been extracted from Soviet POWs (pp. 164-165).

For more on the exploitation of the bodies of Slavs, by the Nazis, for tooth fillings, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/culture-of-death-nazism-now-lewactwo-aly/

SEPARATE-PEACE FEARS NO EXCUSE FOR SELLOUT OF POLAND AT TEHERAN AND YALTA

The Churchill-Roosevelt betrayal of Poland to the Soviet Union, culminating at Yalta, is often rationalized by the specter of a German-Soviet separate peace if Stalin did not get his way. However, Stalin ALSO feared a separate peace–a German-western one. For example, the Battle of the Bulge was framed as an attempt by the Germans to so bloody and dishearten the western Allies that they would unilaterally sue for peace. (p. 170).

THE VERTRIEBENE–GERMANY’S FAULT

Certain revisionists (e. g., Alfred Maurice de Zayas) have repeated the canard that the Soviets and Poles killed over 2 million German civilians during the final offensives and early postwar period. However heavy the loss of German civilian life actually was, it was clearly the fault of the Germans, not the Russians or Poles: “When the German troops fled in chaos, the population panicked and ran with their soldiers. A mass migration towards the German heartlands began. The roads and paths of East Prussia were thick with old men, women and children who had turned and run, only to become jammed in the numerous tank traps that offered only a torturously narrow path. Many–the children in particular–froze to death in the intense cold.” (p. 180).