FRESH extracts from the recently discovered war diary of SS chief Heinrich Himmler detail the most sinister speech in history which he delivered to underlings who carried out the Holocaust.
It was October 4 1943 and marked in the diary of the ‘Reichsführer-SS’ as a ‘Group Leader meeting.’
The innocuous sounding title masked the true horror of what Himmler would say in his speech at 5.30pm in Poznan, occupied Poland.
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Uncovered … Himmler’s secret speech to SS officials has been discovered in a newly found diaryCredit: Getty Images
It was the secret key speech of the entire extermination programme in which, among other things, Himmler told his executioners: “I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people.
Altogether we can say: We have carried out this most difficult task for the love of our people. And we have suffered no defect within us, in our soul, or in our character
Himmler
“It is one of those things that is easily said. ‘The Jewish people is being exterminated,’ every Party member will tell you, ‘perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter.’
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Top ranking Nazi … Evil Himmler was totally devoted to Hitler and his plans to exterminate the Jewish raceCredit: Getty Images
“And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright Germans, and each one has his decent Jew.
“They say: all the others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew.
“And none of them has seen it, has endured it.
“Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1000.
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Twisted … Himmler’s diary reveals he was completely unmoved by the holocaustCredit: Getty Images
“And … to have seen this through and — with the exception of human weakness — to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned.
“Because we know how difficult things would be, if today in every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and the privations, we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and instigators.
“Altogether we can say: We have carried out this most difficult task for the love of our people.
“And we have suffered no defect within us, in our soul, or in our character.”
At 9.30pm that evening he dined with the SS killers and two hours later boarded his private train Steiermark for the journey back to Berlin.
