Discussion on Holocaust Documentation and Policies

Very good points. There wa-- we know from German documents,

we know from German

officials during the war, they did talk about something they called

the Final

Solution to the Jewish question, and the German documents

that talk about this.

But in the m- thousands, millions, tons of German

documents seized at the end of the war that deal with Jewish policy, there is not

a single document, not a single piece of paper

which talks about or

confirms or even discusses an extermination policy.

Now-

Yeah, but Mark, wait. Wait, wait, hold on a second.

There was, there was-

Hitler also knew that i-if, let's say, he didn't win this war, and

someone ever found a document that stated that,

life would be real tough for

him and everyone else.

We know. We have German documents which show exactly what the policy

was, and, uh, these documents are, in fact, very, very important.

The German-- What the German officials meant by the

Final Solution policy

was before nineteen-- uh, end of nineteen forty-one, was a policy of

forced, um, or, or forced expulsion from Europe by forced

emigration if, if necessary and need be.

After nineteen forty-one into nineteen forty-two, this policy changed to one of

force of, of deporting Jews, uprooting them,

and sending them to the east.

And that meant first to ghettos and camps in Poland,

and then later throughout the

war, they were sent to the occupied Soviet

territories.

That's what the German pol-- officials during the war said

and meant by this Final

Solution to the Jewish question. Now, at Nuremberg, this, of course, this whole

issue came up at Nuremberg. All of the German defendants at the big

Nuremberg

trial, nineteen forty-five, nineteen forty-six, all said

that they'd had no

knowledge during the war of any extermination program, although-

Wait a minute. If I had been a German, wait.

If I had been a-