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ing with the territorial final solution, initially targeting Madagascar, later
on the East). No document, however, supports that radical change of
principle, which an extermination policy would have been. When, how,
why, and on whose orders would this policy of deportation and resettlement
in the East have been turned into a program of total physical extermination?
When did the deportation to the East become a mere “euphemism”
for massacre? Who decided to build “extermination camps”
and when, how, and why did this occur?
To these questions, mainstream Holocaust historians can furnish only
conjectural and contradictory replies. What is certain is that such a
radical about-face would have required an order just as radical: the alleged
Führerbefehl, the order by Hitler.
The following chapter will deal with this fundamental question of
Holocaust historiography.