Holocaust Exceptional All Jews Die a Myth Frischauer

Himmler: The Evil Genius of the Third Reich, by Willi Frischauer. 1953

Nazis Did Not Require the Death of All Accessible Jews. Potential Deals for Sparing Jews

This book includes both biographical and historical information on the thoughts and policies of Reichsfuehrer S. S. Heinrich Himmler. Although written decades before the Holocaust became an exclusive term for the extermination of Jews and was treated as a unique historical event, it contains information that contradicts the premises of uniqueness, specifically the view that only Jews were targeted for extermination and that the Third Reich had a singular mission of exterminating EVERY possible Jew in its grasp (as, for example, advanced by Yehuda Bauer).

NAZIS NOT CHRISTIAN

Much detail is provided about Himmler’s decisive rejection of his onetime Catholic faith and his strong antagonism towards Christianity in general (p. 41, 70-71, 80-81, 176, etc.). In fact, the vituperative character of Nazi anti-Catholic propaganda rivaled that of its anti-Semitic propaganda (p. 80). Himmler, ironically, at one time resorted to occultists for guidance (p. 207). In common with other Nazis, Himmler also supported sexual promiscuity at least insofar as it enhanced the productivity of German women (p. 97).

ANTI-SLAVIC AS WELL AS ANTISEMITIC RACISM

Pointedly, German Nazi obsessions were not limited to Jews. Although restrictions were eventually relaxed for practical purposes, membership in the S. S. initially required proof of absence of either Jewish or Slavic blood in one’s lineage going at least as far back as 1750 (p. 32). Himmler strongly opposed the notion, advanced by Alfred Rosenberg, that Slavs should be won over as permanent collaborators of the Reich (p. 150, 190).

HOLOCAUST AND POLOKAUST WERE INTERTWINED

The modern notion that Jews were to be unique victims was foreign to Himmler’s thinking. The exploitation of both Jewish and Slavic forced labor went hand-in-hand with each other: “Manpower shortages had already forced Himmler to postpone the `final solution’ and preserve `inferior types’ as labour slaves.” (p. 210). Himmler (p. 86) is described as having a “preoccupation with eastern `living space'” for Germans, and he repeatedly mentions Jews and Slavs disdainfully in the same sentence: “…Himmler looked upon the Jews and the Slavs and failed to feel any compunction, far less sympathy or mercy, towards them.” (p. 150). Also: “To regard other races, particularly Slavs and Jews, as inferior was the logical conclusion at which the young Nazi hopefuls were expected to arrive almost automatically.” (p. 42).

The Polish intelligentsia was exterminated (p. 149), and the genocide of Slavs intensified after the invasion of the Soviet Union: “It is not surprising under the circumstances that Soviet civilians and prisoners of war were subjected to the same treatment as Jews…Jews, Russians–what was the difference?” (pp. 164-165).

Of course, owing at least partly to the fact that there were vastly more Slavs than Jews, the two could not be all exterminated at the same time. However, the eventual German exterminatory intention against the Slavs is clear: “There were obviously too many Slavs in the east to allow the Germans to move in and to live on the fat of the land. Some of them might be useful as slaves to work for their S. S. masters, but many of them, perhaps many millions, would have to disappear. Those with `Indo-Germanic’ roots he hoped to lead back into the Nordic-German fold, to Germanize them or their offspring. But the rest–and only one or two of his friends knew what was in his mind–might have to be exterminated.” (p. 98). Initial plans, discussed by Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, called for the extermination of 30 million Slavs (p. 148). Apart from that, methods were also being developed for the mass, covert sterilization of thousands of people daily (pp. 183-184), with some three million Soviet POWs to be the first large-scale victims.

FOR HITLER, “ALL” DID NOT MEAN ALL, IN TERMS OF THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS

Adolf Hitler is repeatedly quoted as saying that, regardless of who won the war, the Jews would face complete extermination (p. 236). But it is obvious, even within the context of the information presented just in this one book, that “all” did not literally mean ALL. For example, Himmler was willing for Austrian Jews to go free if Americans agreed to pay their way (p. 111). Also, the former Swiss President visited Germany to plead for the release of captive Jews, with the following results: “He had persuaded Himmler to give his consent, but the plan had collapsed when Himmler had sought Hitler’s approval. `Not unless the Swiss pay for these Jews, so that we can buy some lorries for the Wehrmacht of Switzerland!’ was Hitler’s blackmailing reply.” (p. 237). The fact that Himmler and even Hitler himself were willing to spare Jews in exchange for bribes refutes the claim, of Holocaust uniqueness, in that Jews were invariably targeted for complete extermination and that the extermination of Jews was the highest (let alone singular) goal of the Third Reich, much less that at the expense of all other considerations!