Click2History - The Holocaust: Evidence of Intent - Chapter 6

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>THE HOLOCAUST</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 6 - AMERICAN ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE</p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">World War II was documented by different types of primary source material: Photographs; audio/visual footage; documents; memoirs; eyewitness testimony. A wealth of that evidence, maintained by the Library of Congress and the National Archives, has been digitized. Representative samples constitute damaging "proof" that Hitler’s regime planned the genocide of intent and that of his Nazi regime. </p> <p><a href="http://www.h-ref.de/dk/vern/himm/himmler.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Heinrich Himmler</b></a>, one of Adolf Hitler’s trusted insiders, was responsible for overseeing the "Final Solution" to the "Jewish problem." In a speech to 100 SS generals (on October 4, 1943 in Posen, Poland), Himmler actually spoke about exterminating the Jews. His <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/19/29/19-2842a.gif" target="_blank"><b>handwritten note</b></a> uses the phrase <i>Judenevakuierung</i>, or evacuation of the Jews. However, the <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-posen.htm" target="_blank"><b>sound recording</b></a> of his speech, maintained at the U.S. National Archives, reveals much more than his handwritten note.</p> <p>Talking with the SS, Himmler actually defines what he means by the euphemism "evacuation." The <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/19/29/19-2843a.gif" target="_blank"><b>official translation</b></a> of Himmler’s speech (<i>Exhibit 1919-PS</i> from the Nuremberg War Crime Trials) makes perfectly clear what the Third Reich intended to do with the Jews of Europe: Exterminate them. </p> <p>Eyewitness <a href="http://www.vhf.org/index.htm" target="_blank"><b>accounts</b></a> from many survivors tell a gruesome tale of extraordinary cruelty and suffering. But the photographic evidence nearly defies belief. As Hitler’s regime crumbled in the face of the Allied advance, Nazis tried to destroy evidence of what they had done to other human beings. What they left behind will forever haunt those who study these primary source materials.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="holocaust_evidence_ch5.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="holocaust_evidence_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="holocaust_evidence_ch7.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>