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in his remarks at table. He let his imagination
wander and chose his expressions by chance. In fact, he spoke of a "National
Jewish State". But the propaganda of the Party, directed by Alfred Rosenberg
and by such units as the "World Section" (center of Nazi propaganda abroad),
totally rejected the idea of a Jewish State and admitted only a Jewish reserve.
Let us underscore once again that in evoking Siberia (territory to which the
Reich, extending to the Urals, intended to push Russia), Africa, Madagascar,
Hitler did not in his fantasy exclude the mention of the "final solution" in
progress. He informed his guest of it by declaring that the Jews risked death
and that in his action against them, they were deported "far to the East" where
one made them disappear, as for example from Lithuania.
4. The
Orders of Hitler to Himmler
High-ranking personalities of the
Hitlerian regime have provided us with indications of the confused manner in
which what were afterwards called Orders of the Fuhrer were formed. We may add
to this tableau still another nuance concerning the anti-Jewish action. It is
found in a memorandum from Goering on December 28,1938, to the Ministers of the
Reich (CXXXIX-28) The text contains a little used but expressive term as to the
role of Hitler's will in the taking of anti-Jewish measures. Goering, in charge
of the Jewish question as of July 1938, formulated a series of special
restrictive measures for the Jews. He ended his letter by declaring
(87):
"I went to get the opinion of the will of
the Führer (Willensmeinung) on these matters so that henceforth they alone
would be exclusively valid as directives." Thus, in the Jewish
question one asked the Führer the "opinion of his will." This opinion
placed a measure under the sign of the Order of the Führer.
How
did Himmler receive the Orders of the Führer? We may cite the account of
Schellenberg, Chief of the Department of "Foreign Intelligence" in the RSHA. He
wrote about Himmler coming back from his audiences with Hitler
(88):
"To certain whom he considered worthy of
such an honour, he then commented on the sacred words (sakrale Worte) that he
had just gathered with devotion in the monologues of his Führer going on
for hours. One of the rare persons to whom he spoke of them was Reinhard
Heydrich, who quickly rid these messages of all fantasy and transformed them
into the sober practice of the secret services." One can imagine
Hitler pouring out reasonings and Himmler gathering from them what struck him
and transforming it, in his conscience, into an Order of the Führer which,
transmitted to Heydrich, became a definitive decision, unless Heydrich did the
same thing directly with Hitler.
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