Thursday, March 11, 2021

David Irving examines the Holocaust

 I just read Irving's thesis about Hitler and the Holocaust. He says that after the war the Germans (including in Nurnberg) decided to blame it all on a mad Hitler. But there is no record of Hitler ever giving extermination orders, on the contrary, it was the German and other European peoples' overenthusiasm to punish and kill Jews. Irving, basically, agrees with Arthur Koestler's conclusion written closely after WWII, that the cause of the Holocaust was the passionate desire of European peoples to get rid of the Jews. That there were many opportunities to save Jews even in the middle and the very end of the war, but they did not want to save them. Hungarian Jewry could certainly be saved. The Nazis stopped when meeting with the slightest opposition, like in Albania, Bulgaria, even early Horthy. BTW, I wanted to re-read Unz's article, and can't find it.  

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