Postby The _Seeker » 6 years 10 months ago (Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:17 pm)
Ok I read the Kindle version. Cole goes over all of his views on the Holocaust in Appendix A. Now, he says that there was no plan to exterminate the Jews at the Wannsee conference and there never was a master plan to kill the Jews (no coherent plan, many different plans coming and going). he also keeps with his previous views that in 1944 Auschwitz was a labor camp and not an extermination camp. It's the period in between that he is incorrect on, in my opinion.
He claims:
That Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzek, and Chelmno were death camps in 42/43. To support this, he cites a statistical report provided to Himmler by Richard Korherr which stated the number of murdered Jews was 2,419,656 (1,786,356 killed in those death camps, and 633,300 killed on the Eastern front). He says that Korherr's report jibes with a coded message sent in January of 1943 by Hermann Hoefle (staff member of the SS and Police Leader in Lublin) to SS Lt. Col. Heim, deputy commander of the SS and SD in Krakow. From then on, the Nazi plan was to use all Jews as labor. Cole also claims that Himmler stated that the Germans killed this large amount of Jews in the 42/43 period is a speech to Generals at Sonthofen on May 24, 1944. However, the text of the speech that he posts isn't all that specific and proves nothing to me.
So, we have this Korherr report, the coded message by Hoefle, and the Himmler speech in 44. So what do you guys know of these? I already said, I think the Himmler speech is vague and proves nothing. And my guess is that this Korherr report and coded message's authenticity is in question or the meaning has been totally turned around. If they were legit, these would be more well known.