Memoirs of Hitler aide could finally end Holocaust claims

Fritz Darges, the last SS aide and the last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, has died with orders for his memoirs to be published. He joined the SS in 1933, and by 1936 he was the senior adjutant to Martin Bormann. "I first met the Führer at the Nuremberg party rally in 1934... he was warm-hearted." After serving in the Waffen SS panzer division Wiking - winning the Knights Cross - he was promoted on to the Fuhrer's personal staff in 1940. "It was a very familial atmosphere at the Berghof. One time we went off to Italy with Eva Braun and her sister Grete." - "As adjutant I was responsible for his day-to-day programme. I must, and was, always there for him, at every conference... I must say I found him a genius."

Memoirs of Hitler aide could finally end Holocaust claims - Telegraph

 

Interesting, will this be published as a book? Is their any release date?

On a side not, what kind of punishment did Fritz Darges receive after the war was over? If he had indeed known about the Final Solution in such a way would that not be enough for a very lengthy prison sentence or even the death penalty?

 

One must remember the care which was used in the four major charges at Nuremberg. Not a single charge really carried anything about the KZ death camps. There were charges of "crimes against humanity", but in reality those were charges against enslavement, forced labor, less than humane medical, clothing, food dispersal, and housing, not industrial designed extermination. That wasn't "illegal" actually, so that was never charged.

One must take care when reading the "charges" (officially), and those which were simply "implied". Doenitz wasn't charged with "unrestircted submarine warfare" (we Americans did the same in the PTO), Goering wasnt' charged with bombing cities (we allies did the same), the Soviets managed to NOT get charged with "aggressive war" against Finland, as it appears they didn't break any existing treaties when they did so. The Finns will claim this is false, and it may well be, but it was a "loophole" inside of which the trials were held so that the former Soviet Union could participate and actually "temper" their hatred a bit of the invading Nazis.

That whole period is more than a "can of worms", that is a "bag of venomous snakes, with attitudes"!

 

Tbh, these memoirs are just another volume to add to the pile, they'll not end any claims. let alone any "last shred of doubt" as the Torygraph puts it.

Bleeding hell Clint did you get enough speech marks in there? ;-)

 

yep sure are

 

Good point, my knowledge regarding post war politics is pretty minimal but I hope to change that before the years end.

You can build a time machine, take all these revisionists back in time, show them Hitler in the flesh pulling the first lever and they would still cry foul. Many of them have devoted so much of their time, life, etc to this cause that they will simply fail to accept the facts.

If the man who was with Hitler during most of the major moments in Nazi history and comes out with certain claims, in my eyes, the weight would definitely be shifted towards his side given how he has more experience on the matter than most politicians would dream of.

In other words, I'd rather spend my time correcting wrong conceptions about the innocent and not the obviously guilty like these revisionists.