Hitler Wanted to Exterminate the Jews

The quote my opponent claims is from Joseph Hell has zero credibility. All Google search results for this alleged journalist are in the context of him attributing that quote to Hitler. Joseph Hell, by all appearances, is a figure who pops into the historical record once, serves his purpose of getting Hitler to incriminate himself, and then disappears. This fake quote cannot be used as evidence. It's not even in Hitler's style of speech, anyway. It must be admitted that Hitler, no matter how much you dislike him, was an eloquent man. Take this quote from Mein Kamf, for example: "... the great masses of a people may be more corrupt in the bottom of their hearts than they will be consciously and intentionally bad, so with the primitive simplicity of their minds they will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one, since they themselves might also lie sometimes in little things, but would certainly still be too much ashamed of very great lies. Thus such an untruth will not at all enter their heads, and therefore they will be unable to believe in the possibility of the enormous audacity of the most infamous deception in others; indeed, they may doubt and hesitate even when being informed, and they accept any cause at least as nevertheless being true; therefore, just for this reason some part of the most brazen lie will remain and stick; a fact which all great lying artists and societies of this world know only too well and therefore also villainously employ. Those who know best this truth about the possibilities of the application of untruth and defamation, however, were at all times the Jews; for their entire existence is built on one single great lie, namely, that here one had to deal with a religious brotherhood, while in fact one has to do with a race." - Mein Kamf, p. 313 Tell me, does that really sound like a man who would describe (to a stranger, no less) a personal fantasy of hanging Jews on gallows "until they stink"? And why would he declare hanging to be the only means to be used for exterminating all Jews in Germany? Why not just shoot them? Hanging makes no sense. It'd take too much time and effort, which the Germans didn't have to spare while fighting the world's superpowers, the Allied Forces. Also is the fact that no one, whether he accept the Holocaust as a historical event or not, has ever claimed Hitler actually employed gallows. This quote is pure fabrication. Sensational, perhaps, but fabrication nonetheless. The journalist, Joseph Hell, seems to be a fabrication too. 1b. "I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers ... succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will [be] the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." This is not the sort of concrete, self-incrimination you need to prove your case. According to Holocaust history expert, Hans Mommsen, this quote should be understood in the context of the time, not as a proof of genocidal intent, but: "as a rhetorical gesture designed to put pressure on the international community to accept the Reich's extensive financial demands, a gesture that was not far from open blackmail. At that time it was highly unlikely that either the German or the international public could have interpreted his statement as an ill-concealed declaration of a serious intention to liquidate the Jews under German rule in the event of war."(1) You see, Hitler's problem was that he couldn't afford to expel all the Jews out of Germany (his Final Solution), so he made a rhetorical threat to the world that if they didn't accept the Jews emigrating from Germany into their countries, the Jews would die. This is proven by the fact that previously, in the same exact speech, Hitler complained that even though there was "enough space for settlement ... countries suddenly refuse to recieve Jews, using all possible excuses." It's also similar to a tactic employed by another Nazi, Hermann Esser, who threatened to kill half a million Jews if the French dared to invade Germany.(1) Such a threat would have been completely pointless if they planned on killing the Jews all along.The Jews were being used as a sort of blackmail. But Hitler didn't actually want to kill them. If he did want to, and in fact carried it out, then where is the written order from Hitler commanding such an atrocity? The fact such a document doesn't exist is telling. 2b. "Hitler is there and the proto-genocidal then genocidal intent is there ..." This is just a quote from a historian asserting that Hitler had "genocidal intent." But where is the proof? This is nothing but an appeal to authority; a fallacy, plain and simple. The reference to the "Final Solution" was, in reality, a plan to expel the Jews from Germany. But this historian pretends it was actually a plan for mass murder ... without proof! Proof, please. Hitler's desire to force the Jews to emigrate is well documented. Not so for his (alleged) desire for mass murder. 3b. Nowhere in this quote is it claimed that Hitler was genocidal, so need for me to refute it. 4b. "If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain." Read the quote in context: https://www.archive.org...All Hitler is saying is that he wish it were Jews that had died in WWI instead of Germans. There is no desire to kill Jews expressed, implicit nor explicit. 5b. "The sole German objective in the region will be to liquidate all Jews who live in Arab countried under the patronage of Great Britain." This is a completely fabricated quote. A quick Google search shows you carelessly copied and pasted it with the wrong citation; it is alleged in forums to be a statement from Hitler to the Muslim Mufti of Jerusalem on November 28, 1941 ... not a quote from Heinrich Himmler's journal, as you claim. But it never happened! If it did, the Jewish Virtual Library would surely have included it in their description of that dialogue: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org...They don't; proof it never occured. That would have pounced on this as proof of Hitler's blood lust if they had even the flimsiest evidence it were real. 6b. This is a false confession at the Nurembourg Trial, extracted via torture. It's invalid as evidence. Proof: "Emil Lachout was a lieutenant in the Military Police Service in Austria in 1948. His job was to accompany the Military Police and members of the Allied War Crimes Commission during the arrests of alleged war criminals to ensure that the suspects were not tortured or abused."(2) A copy of a letter of his affirming that the Allies used torture to extract false confessions is still in existence today. You can see it here: http://codoh.com... (scroll down)What's funny is the complete version of the alleged confession is here(3) and reads: "Hitler's method of work was that he gave even important commands to his confidants verbally. Also in the leader's records of my interviews with Hitler completely preserved in the German Federal Archives - there were numerous commands even in important areas which Hitler clearly gave by word of mouth only. It therefore conforms with his method of work and must not be regarded as an oversight, that a written order for the extermination of the Jews does not exist." LOL! What an expedient lie. Albert Speer was obviously tortured and forced to come up with this pathetic excuse for why no written proof of Hitler's desire to kill Jews ever existed.Case closed! Hitler never intended to mass murder Jews. Only deport them. He was concerned at the evil he percieved being inflicted on his countrymen by a Zionist elite, but let his insuing outrage spiral out of control into a racism and hatred toward all Jews in general. It's inexcusable, but doesn't automatically mean he was a genocidal maniac. Please note that no further submission of evidence is permitted since I won't be able to respond, and my opponent's only job in this last round is to defend his prior evidences and arguments.(1) http://www.jstor.org...;*Register for a free account to read more pages after the first(2) http://ihr.org...(3) https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org...;