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Wisliceny declared that he met Eichmann in Berlin in late July or early
August of 1942. On this occasion Eichmann is said to have shown him
an order written by Himmler, which Wisliceny summarized as follows:
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“The Fuehrer had ordered the final solution of the Jewish question;
the Chief of the Security Police and the SD and the Inspector of
Concentration Camps were entrusted with carrying out this socalled
final solution. All Jewish men and women who were able to
work were to be temporarily exempted from the so-called final solution
and used for work in the concentration camps. This letter was
signed by Himmler himself. I could not possibly be mistaken since
Himmler's signature was well known to me.”
During his interrogation by the prosecutor of the national Slovak tribunal,
Wisliceny confirmed: 673
“This order was dated April 1942 and showed Himmler’s personal
signature, which I knew well. The order mentioned that ablebodied
Jews were to be exempted, for the time being, from extermination
and were to be put to work in the factories attached to the
KZs.”
Seeing that the alleged Führerbefehl transmitted by Himmler to Höß
in June of 1941 concerned all of the Jews without exception, 674 i.e. also
those apt to work, mainstream Holocaust historiography must prove the
existence of a triple Führerbefehl – the first one for the total extermination
of the Russian Jews, the second one for the total extermination of
the western Jews, and a third one of a later date of a partial extermination.
But there is yet another twist. According to mainstream Holocaust
literature Sobibór and Treblinka were opened in May and July of 1942,
respectively, hence after the alleged Führerbefehl of April 1942, and
were to be pure extermination camps, i.e. for the total and indiscriminate
extermination of able-bodied and other Jews. This would have required
yet a fourth Führerbefehl, revoking the third one, regarding the
two camps mentioned and also regarding Che�mno and Be��ec, the oth-
672 Ibid., p. 358.
673 Slovenský Národný Archív, 36/48, p. 142.
674 Himmler is alleged to have informed Höß of the following order by Hitler: “Alle für uns
erreichbaren Juden sind jetzt während des Krieges ohne Ausnahme zu vernichten.” (All
Jews whom we can seize are to be annihilated without exception now during the war.”)
Martin Broszat (ed.), Kommandant in Auschwitz. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen des
Rudolf Höß, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 157.