![Until his death in 2007, Hilberg was considered the preeminent expert on the Holocaust. His primary work, The Destruction of the European jews, first appeared in 1961, in 1985 the book was expanded to a three-volume set, and a third edition came out in 2003, clocking in at nearly 1,400 pages! [1365x1005 - 340KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/eFzYxV.jpg){kind=link}
How can you write 1400 pages about a bunch of……., oh, never mind. I know the answer. “Because, goy, because”
How can you write 1400 pages about a bunch of……., oh, never mind. I know the answer. “Because, goy, because”
Until his death in 2007, Hilberg was considered the preeminent expert on the Holocaust. His primary work, The Destruction of the European jews, first appeared in 1961, in 1985 the book was expanded to a three-volume set, and a third edition came out in 2003, clocking in at nearly 1,400 pages! [1365x1005 - 340KB]
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In the first edition (1961), he maintained that Hitler issued two extermination orders: one in “the spring of 1941” to kill all Jews “on the spot” in the occupied Soviet territories, and a second a short time later to exterminate all European Jews. (p. 177)
This passage was drastically rewritten for the revised “definitive” edition published in 1985 (p. 273), with no acknowledgment, of course. Hilberg now (2003) makes no mention at all of any order by Hitler to kill Jews. Hilberg’s view now is that there was an extermination program, but that it developed “spontaneously,” without a plan or budget.
But Hitler must have ordered it. How do the Jews explain this? Traditional exterminationists tie themselves up into knots trying to make sense of this situation. Hilberg is a case in point. As I said, originally, he spoke of two Hitler orders, without supplying any specifics (1961: 177). When it became clear that no such orders existed, Hilberg retreated to a bizarre view, namely, that the Nazis acted via some kind of magic telepathy. In 1983 he said:
"What began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy." :honk:
After the Soviet archives were open in the 1990's and sadly for the jews no "Hitler Order" was discovered, meant that as late as 2003, Hilberg was still fumbling around for an explanation:
"The process of destruction ... did not, however, proceed from a basic plan .... The destruction process was a step-by-step operation, and the administrator could seldom see more than one step ahead. . .. In the final analysis, the destruction of the Jews was not so much a product of laws and commands as it was a matter of spirit, of shared comprehension, of consonance and synchronization." :honk:
The Nazis literally did the "biggest" "most documented genocide" of "all time" without Hitler ordering it and without one written word of the sort via telepathy!
In the first edition (1961), he maintained that Hitler issued two extermination orders: one in “the spring of 1941” to kill all Jews “on the spot” in the occupied Soviet territories, and a second a short time later to exterminate all European Jews. (p. 177)
This passage was drastically rewritten for the revised “definitive” edition published in 1985 (p. 273), with no acknowledgment, of course. Hilberg now (2003) makes no mention at all of any order by Hitler to kill Jews. Hilberg’s view now is that there was an extermination program, but that it developed “spontaneously,” without a plan or budget.
But Hitler must have ordered it. How do the Jews explain this? Traditional exterminationists tie themselves up into knots trying to make sense of this situation. Hilberg is a case in point. As I said, originally, he spoke of two Hitler orders, without supplying any specifics (1961: 177). When it became clear that no such orders existed, Hilberg retreated to a bizarre view, namely, that the Nazis acted via some kind of magic telepathy. In 1983 he said:
"What began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy." :honk:
After the Soviet archives were open in the 1990's and sadly for the jews no "Hitler Order" was discovered, meant that as late as 2003, Hilberg was still fumbling around for an explanation:
"The process of destruction ... did not, however, proceed from a basic
plan .... The destruction process was a step-by-step operation, and the administrator could seldom see more than one step ahead. . .. In the final analysis, the destruction of the Jews was not so much a product of laws and commands as it was a matter of spirit, of shared comprehension, of consonance and synchronization." :honk:
The Nazis literally did the "biggest" "most documented genocide" of "all time" without Hitler ordering it and without one written word of the sort via telepathy!
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