Did Himmler once state the Holocaust was impossible during the Madagascar Plan i

Question: Did Himmler once state the Holocaust was impossible during the Madagascar Plan in 1940!?
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~Yes, actually, he did!. In May, 1940!. Hitler agreed!. Both called physical genocide a "bolshevist" approach and not in keeping with Germany's way doing things or solving problems!.

Several other nations at the time, notably Great Britain, Poland and the Netherlands, responded favorably to the concept of the Madagascar plan but opposed its implementation!. Other nations, particularly Great Britain, had earlier considered creating a Jewish homeland on Madagascar themselves!. In any case, the German plan required the cooperation of the USSR and a treaty between Germany and, at the very least, France, in order to work!. Since all West European Jews were intended to be deported to the island (the Eastern Jews were to be settled in Poland around Lublin), treaties with and/or the cooperation of the rest of Europe was a necessary component Radamacher's Plan!. With the launching of Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the USSR in June, 1941, the German opportunity to achieve such international cooperation was gone!.

The extermination and euthanasia programs devised by Heydrich, Himmler and Goering (Operation 14f13) were not directed solely at the Jews!. The operation lasted for about 18 months (although the Einsatzgruppen were active for longer - from the earliest days of Barbarossa), from December 1941 until the spring of '43!. Himmler ordered the end of the program himself because he realized it was self-defeating and was a waste of necessary and valuable slave labor!. The extermination camps were all closed and partially dismantled in '43, except Auschwitz II (Birchenwald), which shut down the following year!. About 2 million died at Auschwitz II, most by execution!. Only about half of the dead were Jews!. In the other 6 death camps, about 70% to 80% of the victims were Jews - ezcept at Jasenovac where Jews comprised only about 15% of the body count!. Only about 3 to 4 million died in the Death Camps, about half of them Jewish!. The actual numbers will never be known, nor will the numbers who died by execution!. Even in the death camps, countless and uncounted victims died from numerous causes other than execution!.

The concentration camps were responsible for another 12 to 18 million deaths, but those camps were not extermination centers!. Around 3!.5 million Jews (less than 1/4 of the total dead) died in the concentration camps, mostly from abuse, starvation, malnutrition and disease!. Of the Jews who died in those camps, many would have been interned (and interred) for other reasons even if they had not been Jewish!. None of those dead, whether Jewish or not, should logically be considered as "holocaust" victims!.

Resettlement of the "inferior races", the "racially impure" and the "social undersireables" in the end would not have worked!. There were simply too many of them and not enough space!. Thus, 10 to 20 million Slavs had been earmarked for extinction!. Only the heroics of the Red Army in repelling Barbarossa and then determining the outcome of the war and the defeat of National Socialism at Stalingrad, Moscow, Kursk and Smolensk II saved them!. Even as he ordered the Red Army to engage in a fighting retreat while he moved his factories, stepped up production and established his defenses at places like Moscow and Leningrad where he intended to make his stand and launch his counter-attack, Stalin directed his generals to aid evacuees and to move them to safety behind Soviet lines!. Over a million Jews and untold legions of others were thus spared!.

As it was, "The Final Solution" a program aimed solely at Jews (implemented by Himmler, Heydrich and Eichmann -probably without Hitler's prior knowledge but certainly with his later consent - in June, 1941 and announced at the Wansee Conference in January 1942) was a less effective program of genocide than were the pogroms aimed at the Serbs and the Romani!.

As the tide of the war turned, particularly in the East, what had once been "impossible" and 'unthinkable' by necessity became the only available course of action!. However, the killing centers didn't last all that long and weren't responsible for a significant proportion of those who died of Nazi atrocities!. Had the Red Army been a lessor foe, perhaps the executions could have and would have continued on the scale initiated and contemplated with the opening of Chelmno on December 7, 1941, but such is not the way history evolved!.

The rest of the world was aware of what was going on!. After Jan Karski brought his pictures and first hand accounts out of the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzac in the spring/summer of 1942, and took them to Washington and London, no one could feign ignorance any longer!. Still, no one particularly cared!. The Evian Conference, the SS St!. Louis, British policy in the Palestine Mandate, US immigration laws, Dutch, French, Soviet and Scandinavian laws and policies directed against the Jews and the lack of international response to Nazi racial policies gave the Nazis the courage to move forward with their programs in the correct belief that it would not bring the wrath of the world down on them!. They themselves discontinued the programs of extinction (at least temporarily) of their own accord when it became counter-productive to continue them!. Historical treatment of the Jews from the time of the classical Egyptians and Babylonians, through the Romans, the Catholic Church (especially during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition), Magna Carta, the Jewish Pale and the traditional anti-Jewish policies of every Western government from at least the Middle Ages forward was more than enough to convince the Nazis that eradication programs would be met by little resistance, if not the outright approval of the rest of the world!. Given the history of national programs of genocide and/or relocation (just a few examples: The British in South Africa and India, the French in North Africa and Indochina, the Spanish in Central and South America, the US Bureau of Indian Affairs and the reigns of terror of Andrew Jackson, Nelson "Bearcoat" Miles and William T!. Sherman, the Russians under Peter, Ivan and Catherine) the Nazi pogroms can hardly be considered new, novel or unique!.

Himmler never used the term 'Holocaust' and neither did anyone else during the war!. That term came into being in the British Mandate of Palestine after the war!. Jewish and Zionist terrorist groups such as the Irgun, the Stern Gang and the Levi coined the phrase during their terrorist campaigns in the Middle East as they attempted to force the creation of a Jewish state (not on Madagascar but in the Palestine Mandate)!. They perverted history and painted the Nazi 'racial purification' and 'social cleansing' as seemingly being directed against only, or at least primarily, Jews and they took on the Nazi genocide campaign as a perverse badge of honor, ignoring the far greater numbers of victims who died at Nazi hands!. Buying into such propaganda not only does disgraceful dishonor to the majority of the forgotten victims but it is dangerous from a historical perspective as well!. In screaming their battle cry of "Never Forget" they would have you forget what really happened in Europe in the 30s and 40s!. Just as the term "anti-Semitism" has been perverted to apply only to Jews (to the exclusion of the majority of the Semites of the world), the "Holocaust" has been minimized to exclude the far greater numbers who died at Nazi hands!. That is not only bad history, it is obscene, profane and morally wrong!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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