Private
diaries of Nazi propaganda maestro Joseph Goebbels and Himmler unearthed from
the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass
extermination of Jews on December 12, 1941, during a meeting of Nazi German
regional governors in the chancellery.
As Goebbels wrote: "With regards to the Jewish Question, the
Fuhrer decided to make a clean sweep ..."
At
the Klessheim conference on the 17 and 18 April 1943, according to the protocol,
Hitler noted, in regard to the Jews in Poland:"If the Jews there don't want
to work they will be shot. If they cannot work, they must rot. They should be
treated like tubercular bacillus which could attack healthy bodies. That is not
cruel - if one keeps in mind that even innocent natural beings like hares and
deer must be killed so that no damage occurs."
April 29, 1945, Adolf Hitler hastily dictated his last will and a
Political Testament to his secretary, Frau Traudl Junge. The documents were
little different from many speeches and articles he had written before. After
causing the destruction of huge areas of Europe, demanding the sacrifice of
millions of lives in pursuit of his political ambitions, and ordering the murder
of millions of others, Adolf Hitler showed no remorse.
Instead, he blamed the Jews for the war he himself had started.
/Louis Bülow
Sources:
Calvin College - German Propaganda Archive
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Shamash - Holocaust Photos
Heinrich Hoffmann - The Hitler No One Know