The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

Shofar FTP Archive File: people/b/butz.arthur//email-to-butz.02


Received: from nizkor.almanac.bc.ca (nizkor.almanac.bc.ca [199.60.231.65]) by vixa.voyager.net (8.7.3/CICNet) with SMTP id MAA29145 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:23:27 -0400 (EDT)
Received: by nizkor.almanac.bc.ca (Smail3.1.29.1 #8)	id m0uwsvg-0004YmC; Sat, 31 Aug 96 09:29 PDT
Received: from vixa.voyager.net by nizkor.almanac.bc.ca ; 31 AUG 96 09:29:45 PDT
Received: from clmx62.dial.voyager.net (clmx62.dial.voyager.net [198.109.137.62]) by vixa.voyager.net (8.7.3/CICNet) with SMTP id MAA29091; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:22:59 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199608311622.MAA29091@vixa.voyager.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:23:35 -0400
From: jamie@voyager.net (Jamie McCarthy)
To: ihrgreg@kaiwan.com, butz@delta.eecs.nwu.edu
Cc: jamie@nizkor.org, dkeren@world.std.com
Subject: Re: Ausrotten again
Newsgroups: alt.revisionism
References: <4vpt6e$taj@Vir.com>  <502sor$8lf@Vir.com> <505mrj$uii@Vir.com> 
Organization: Absence Software
X-UIDL: 4394468e1e73b9ce14cb0e19b69fc59e

(A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
alt.revisionism)

dkeren@world.std.com (Daniel Keren) wrote:

> AFAIK, the recording covers only the first paragraph.

I'm jumping into the middle of this conversation, so I didn't see the
context.  If someone had asked how much of the Oct. 4th speech was on
tape, the answer is "all of it," all three hours and ten minutes.

> The one with the "most of you know what it is to see 100 corpses
> lying side by side, or 500, or a 1,000".
> 
> Some "evacuation". 

And don't forget the quote from the next paragraph:

   We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it,
   to kill this people who would kill us.

In case anyone revisionists want to object to the translation -- and I'm
sure they'd love to find a reason -- I'll make it easy on them. The noun
is "dieses Volk" (the same as "unserem Volk" which refers to the German
people).  The verb is "umbringen."  "To kill this people" is the best
translation, in my opinion, but other acceptable alternatives would be
"to kill this race," or the nontranslation "to kill this Volk."

And:

   Because we don't want, at the end of all this, to get sick and
   die from the same bacillus that we have exterminated.

The verb there is "ausrotten."  Perhaps our "revisionists" on this forum
would like to explain how Himmler was using a colorful idiom about
transporting bacteria out of the Reich on microscopic trains.

And don't forget -- according to Greg Raven, this speech doesn't count
as evidence for the Holocaust, because Himmler doesn't say anything
about gas chambers!

> BTW, the paragraph where Himmler speaks on the Slavs as "human
> animals", and states that he doesn't care if 10,000 Russian
> women die while digging an anti-tank ditch for Germany, is
> also in the recording, and as a .wav file on Nizkor's site.

The official IMT translation:

   We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a
   decent attitude towards animals, will also assume a decent
   attitude towards these human animals.
   
   But it is a crime against our own blood to worry about them and
   give them ideals, thus causing our sons and grandsons to have a
   more difficult time with them. When someone comes to me and says,
   "I cannot dig the anti-tank ditch with women and children, it is
   inhuman, for it will kill them", then I would have to say, "you
   are a murderer of your own blood because if the anti-tank ditch
   is not dug, German soldiers will die, and they are the sons of
   German mothers. They are our own blood".

Transcriptions, translations, and audio recordings (in a variety of
formats) are available at:

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/himmler-heinrich/posen/oct-04-43/

Nizkor is pleased to announce that we now have a RealAudio server, so
all of the audio recordings can be played in real time, with no
downloading necessary, for free, if you have a computer that supports
the RealAudio client (Mac and Windows both do).

Posted;  emailed to Greg Raven, and to Arthur Butz, who has advanced
some of the most interesting "revisionist" theories regarding this
speech.
-- 
 Jamie McCarthy          http://www.absence.prismatix.com/jamie/
 jamie@voyager.net        Co-Webmaster of http://www.nizkor.org/
 Hate mail will be posted.


Home ·  Site Map ·  What's New? ·  Search Nizkor

© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2012

This site is intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and to combat hatred. Any statements or excerpts found on this site are for educational purposes only.

As part of these educational purposes, Nizkor may include on this website materials, such as excerpts from the writings of racists and antisemites. Far from approving these writings, Nizkor condemns them and provides them so that its readers can learn the nature and extent of hate and antisemitic discourse. Nizkor urges the readers of these pages to condemn racist and hate speech in all of its forms and manifestations.