The Washington Holocaust Memorial

Crikey, Australia
Dec 23 2004

A little while ago Miscellany mentioned the historian of the Armenian
massacres/genocide, Norman Stone, doubting the authenticity of
Hitler’s quote about the Armenians which is featured on the wall of
the Washington Holocaust memorial.

We have just noticed (the TLS 19 November 2004) a letter from Vahakn
Dadrian and Stephen Feinstein of the University of Minnesota Centre
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In the letter they say Professor
Gerhard Weinberg (reported in the New York Times June 18 1985) found
the quote in secret notes Admiral Canaris had taken of Hitler’s speech
delivered to German generals on August 22 1939 in Obersalzberg.