Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (2000) 234-252
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
States that the originator of the Madagascar Plan was not Eichmann but Franz Rademacher, the consultant for Jewish matters in the Foreign Office. He first suggested it on 3 June 1940 and submitted a detailed plan on 2 July. Heydrich wanted the execution of the plan to be in the hands of the SS, where it would have been the responsibility of Eichmann. In postwar interrogations, Rademacher minimized his role as originator of the plan, which would have incriminated him, and attributed it to Eichmann and various others, whereas Eichmann inflated his own role, to prove that his real wish was only to deport the Jews and not to exterminate them. Weighs testimony on this subject by Nazi officials at war crimes trials and in Henry Picker's accounts of Hitler's table talk, concluding that they all contain falsifications. Warns that postwar testimony should be accepted only when supported by documentation.
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