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Not OP, but I can probably source his statements.
This isn't any more of a conspiracy theory than the Holocaust dogma by the way.
I hear the Final Solution was merely an attempt to deport all Jews to Madagascar, but logistics were too much of a problem.
On August 30, 1940, Rademacher prepared the note "Madagaskar-Projekt," in which the section "Finanzierung" (Financing) begins with the following words:[1]
"The execution of the proposed final solution requires substantial means."
The 'final solution of the Jewish question' therefore meant nothing other than the resettlement of the European Jews to Madagascar. On July 12, 1940, Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, gave a speech, in which he made known the decision[2]
"to deport the whole kindred of Jewry in the German Reich, in the General Gouvernement, and in the Protectorate within the shortest time imaginable after the conclusion of peace to an African or American colony. Madagascar is being considered, which is supposed to be ceded by France for this purpose."
On July 25, Frank repeated that the Führer had decided to deport the Jews,[3]
"as soon as the overseas traffic permits the possibility of the transportation of the Jews."
In October 1940, Alfred Rosenberg wrote an article entitled "Juden auf Madagaskar" (Jews on Madagascar), in which he recalled that already at the anti-Jewish Congress of Budapest in 1927
"[...] the question of a future forced evacuation of the Jews out of Europe [was] discussed, and the proposal surfaced for the first time here of promoting Madagascar as the future home of the Jews."
Rosenberg took up the proposal and expressed his wish that "Jewish high-finance" of the USA and Great Britain might also contribute to the establishment of a 'Jewish reservation' on Madagascar, which in his opinion constituted "a world problem."[4]
At the conference whose theme was "The Jewish Question as World Problem," which took place on March 29, 1941, Rosenberg declared:
"For Germany, the Jewish issue will be solved only when the last Jew has departed the territory of greater Germany."
He mentioned in this connection a "Jewish reservation," which - even though Rosenberg did not expressly say it - was obviously supposed to be located on Madagascar.[5]
According to the testimony of Moritz von Schirmeister, a former official in the Propaganda Ministry, Josef Goebbels also spoke about the Madagascar Plan several times,[6] and Ribbentrop recalled the decision of the Führer to deport the European Jews to north Africa or Madagascar.[7] This was no idle pipe-dream, but rather a very real and concrete project. Parallel to this, the authorities of the Reich kept promoting the Jewish emigration mainly out of Germany by all means.
On May 20, 1941, in expectation of the execution of the Madagascar Plan, which, so it was thought, was imminent, Heydrich prohibited Jewish emigration from France and Belgium "in view of the undoubted approaching final solution of the Jewish problem."[8] But Heydrich nevertheless repeated the central principle of the NS policy toward the Jews:[9]
"In conformity with a communication from the Reichsmarschall of the Greater German Reich [Göring], the emigration of the Jews from the territory of the Reich, including the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, is to be carried out and even intensified during the war within the limits of the existing possibilities with attention to the guidelines set up for the emigration of the Jews."
Heydrich then unambiguously explained the reasons for the prohibition of Jewish emigration from France and Belgium:[8]
"Since there exist, for example, only insufficient travel possibilities for the Jews out of the Reich territory, chiefly across Spain and Portugal, an emigration of Jews from France and Belgium would mean a renewed decrease of the same."
Two months after that, on July 31, Göring entrusted Heydrich with the mission to effect all necessary preparations for the 'final solution,' i.e. the emigration or evacuation of all Jews located in the German sphere of influence, to Madagascar. In his letter we read:[10]
"As supplement to the task already delegated to you with the order of Jan. 14, '39, of bringing the Jewish problem to the most favorable solution consistent with the circumstances and in the form of the emigration or evacuation, I hereby charge you to effect all necessary organizational, practical, and material preparations for a total solution of the Jewish question within the German sphere of influence in Europe. Insofar as the responsibilities of other central authorities are involved in this, they are to participate.
I further charge you to present me shortly with a comprehensive plan of the organizational, practical, and material prerequisites for the execution of our goal, the final solution of the Jewish question."
This document is in full conformity with the Madagascar Plan. The instructions from Göring issued in "supplement" to those already given to Heydrich in the order of January 14, 1939, in fact consisted exclusively in the realization of the solution of the Jewish problem "in the form of emigration or evacuation"[11] of the Jews from the Reich, while at the same time a territorial 'final solution' for all Jews in the German-occupied European nations, by means of forced resettlement to Madagascar, was the aim. Precisely because it included all Jews of the occupied European nations, this solution was described as the "Gesamtlösung" (complete solution).
By virtue of the fact that Heydrich wrote on November 6, 1941, that he had already been charged for years with the preparation for the 'final solution' in Europe,[12] he himself was clearly referring to the task assigned to him by the order of January 14, 1939, and identified the 'final solution' with the "solution in form of an emigration or evacuation," which Göring had specified as the goal in the letter of July 31, 1941. In the same context belongs an order, which was transmitted to the Foreign Office by Adolf Eichmann on August 28, 1941, and which prohibited "an emigration of Jews out of the territories occupied by us, in consideration of the final solution of the issue of European Jews, which is in preparation and is approaching."[13]
In the months that followed, the prospect of large territorial gains had become realistic since the start of the Russian campaign, so that new perspectives developed, which led to a significant change of course in the NS Jewish policy. In place of the 'final solution' by forced resettlement to Madagascar, a 'territorial final solution' emerged by means of deporting the European Jews into the eastern territories conquered by the Germans. This is, of course, a different topic that I'd gladly discuss.
[1] NG-2586-D.
[2] PS-2233. IMT, Vol. XXIX, p. 378.
[3] PS-2233. IMT, Vol. XXIX, p. 405.
[4] CDJC, CXLVI-51, pp. 4, 7, 9.
[5] CDJC, CXLVI-23, pp. 6 and 82.
[6] IMT, Vol. XVII, pp. 250.
[7] IMT, Vol. X, p. 398.
[8] NG-3104.
[9] NG-2586-E. PS-710.
[10] The legal emigration into other states or the deportation to the east (Poland: October 1939 to March 1940) or to the West (unoccupied France: October 1940).
[11] PS-1624.
[12] PA, Inland II A/B, AZ 83-85 Sdh. 4, Bd. 59/3.
[13] CDJC, V-15.
PA: Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes (Political Archive of the Foreign Office), Berlin
CDJC: Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center), Paris
IMT/G: The Trial against the Main War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945-1946/Der Prozeß gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof, ibd
And all Jews were rationed three times a day with more calories than most Germans got due to food shortage.
Well, to be fair, this varied from time to time and got worse at the end of the war.
And all Jews were given access to recreational facilities and medical treatment.
I will choose Auschwitz as an example. They had health care,[1] a swimming pool,[2] inmates were paid for their labour in the camp with special money printed for their use,[3] they had camp orchestras,[4] were allowed to send letters,[5] they also had a football field, a brothel, education centres, legal adivice and could register complaints about SS-men mistreating them etc., camp theatre, and a cinema. I won't bother looking for sources for all of these, because you can google about it for youself and because I know I won't be getting much replies anyway. I can, however, look for sources/pictures.
[1] Data from the Auschwitz trial at Frankfurt, read out at the trial of General Remer on 22 October 1992 by his lawyer Hajo Hermann: The Rudolf Report, p.360. Here's a picture of a clinic:
http://vho.org/VffG/2000/3/Image83.jpg
[2]
http://www.heretical.com/miscella/swimpool.html http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/8477/pict00925rk.jpg
[3]
http://www.codoh.com/gcgv/gcgvcole.html
[4]
http://www.cympm.com/orkest.html
[5]
http://www.ety.com/HRP/pol/auschwitzauction.htm
And gas chambers were never used, while cremation was never used on live people but on cadavers.
Well, the Holocaust dogma is a huge argument from ignorance: "We don't know that Jews have not been gassed (despite forensic analisys saying no, and besides "eyewitnesses" saying yes), so naturally they have been gassed."
There is no Nazi documentation involving this, just several eyewitnesses (most of whom have made technical mistakes and it's obvious they are lying). The repeated saying that it's the most documented genocide in history is false -- the genocide bit, as claimed, is largely unrecorded. This is too big to just source here, so one should read most revisionist books to make a decision on the matter, together with standard Holocaust history books:
http://vho.org/dl/ENG.html