Was the Alleged Plan to Murder All Jews an Official Nazi Policy?
A key component of Herfs theory is that this publicly expressed intention to murder all Jews became a government policy, for he writes: “By summer and fall of 1941, Hitler and Goebbels were saying publicly that the threatened extermination of the Jews was now part of ongoing official policy [p.12].” If the plan to murder the Jews was official policy, then we should expect that there would be documentary evidence of this murderous master plan left over in the tons of Nazi documents the Allies captured at the end of WWII. In the words of Holocaust revisionist Robert Faurisson: “In effect, such a formidable criminal undertaking supposedly conceived, ordered, organized and perpetrated by the Germans would have necessitated an order, a plan, instructions, a budgetSuch an undertaking, carried out over several years on a whole continent and generating the death of millions of victims would have left a flood of documentary evidence.”16 Yet, Holocaust historian Leon Poliakov, who believes that
